fix(gr00t): fix Eagle25VL model and processor crash in transformers>=5.4.0, <5.6.0 (#3652)

Co-authored-by: Steven Palma <imstevenpmwork@ieee.org>

docs/source/act.mdx

@@ -79,17 +79,13 @@ If your local computer doesn't have a powerful GPU, you can utilize Google Colab
 Once training is complete, you can evaluate your ACT policy using the `lerobot-record` command with your trained policy. This will run inference and record evaluation episodes:
 
 ```bash
-lerobot-record \
-  --robot.type=so100_follower \
+lerobot-rollout \
+  --strategy.type=base \
+  --policy.path=${HF_USER}/act_policy \
+  --robot.type=so101_follower \
   --robot.port=/dev/ttyACM0 \
-  --robot.id=my_robot \
   --robot.cameras="{ front: {type: opencv, index_or_path: 0, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}}" \
   --display_data=true \
-  --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/eval_act_your_dataset \
-  --dataset.num_episodes=10 \
-  --dataset.single_task="Your task description" \
-  --dataset.streaming_encoding=true \
-  --dataset.encoder_threads=2 \
-  # --dataset.camera_encoder.vcodec=auto \
-  --policy.path=${HF_USER}/act_policy
+  --task="Your task description" \ # can be skipped for ACT
+  --duration=60
 ```

docs/source/groot.mdx

@@ -105,10 +105,12 @@ These results demonstrate GR00T's strong generalization capabilities across dive
 
 ### Evaluate in your hardware setup
 
-Once you have trained your model using your parameters you can run inference in your downstream task. Follow the instructions in [Imitation Learning for Robots](./il_robots). For example:
+Once you have trained your model using your parameters you can run inference in your downstream task. Follow the instructions in [Policy Deployment (lerobot-rollout)](./inference). For example:
 
 ```bash
-lerobot-record \
+lerobot-rollout\
+  --strategy.type=sentry \
+  --strategy.upload_every_n_episodes=5 \
   --robot.type=bi_so_follower \
   --robot.left_arm_port=/dev/ttyACM1 \
   --robot.right_arm_port=/dev/ttyACM0 \
@@ -119,14 +121,12 @@ lerobot-record \
   }' \
   --display_data=true \
   --dataset.repo_id=<user>/eval_groot-bimanual  \
-  --dataset.num_episodes=10 \
   --dataset.single_task="Grab and handover the red cube to the other arm" \
   --dataset.streaming_encoding=true \
   --dataset.encoder_threads=2 \
   # --dataset.camera_encoder.vcodec=auto \
   --policy.path=<user>/groot-bimanual \ # your trained model
-  --dataset.episode_time_s=30 \
-  --dataset.reset_time_s=10
+  --duration=600
 ```
 
 ## License

docs/source/il_robots.mdx

@@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ from lerobot.teleoperators.so_leader import SO101Leader, SO101LeaderConfig
 from lerobot.robots.so_follower import SO101Follower, SO101FollowerConfig
 
 robot_config = SO101FollowerConfig(
-    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431541",
-    id="my_red_robot_arm",
+    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90687491",
+    id="my_follower_arm",
 )
 
 teleop_config = SO101LeaderConfig(
-    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551",
-    id="my_blue_leader_arm",
+    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90689011",
+    id="my_leader_arm",
 )
 
 robot = SO101Follower(robot_config)
@@ -108,13 +108,13 @@ With `rerun`, you can teleoperate again while simultaneously visualizing the cam
 <hfoption id="Command">
 ```bash
 lerobot-teleoperate \
-    --robot.type=koch_follower \
-    --robot.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431541 \
-    --robot.id=my_awesome_follower_arm \
-    --robot.cameras="{ front: {type: opencv, index_or_path: 0, width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 30}}" \
-    --teleop.type=koch_leader \
-    --teleop.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551 \
-    --teleop.id=my_awesome_leader_arm \
+    --robot.type=so101_follower \
+    --robot.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90687491 \
+    --robot.id=my_follower_arm \
+    --robot.cameras="{front: {type: opencv, index_or_path: 0, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}}" \
+    --teleop.type=so101_leader \
+    --teleop.port=/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90689011 \
+    --teleop.id=my_leader_arm \
     --display_data=true
 ```
 </hfoption>
@@ -122,34 +122,48 @@ lerobot-teleoperate \
 
 <!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
 ```python
+import time
+from lerobot.teleoperators.so_leader import SO101Leader, SO101LeaderConfig
+from lerobot.robots.so_follower import SO101Follower, SO101FollowerConfig
 from lerobot.cameras.opencv import OpenCVCameraConfig
-from lerobot.teleoperators.koch_leader import KochLeader, KochLeaderConfig
-from lerobot.robots.koch_follower import KochFollower, KochFollowerConfig
+from lerobot.utils.visualization_utils import init_rerun, log_rerun_data, shutdown_rerun
 
-camera_config = {
-    "front": OpenCVCameraConfig(index_or_path=0, width=1920, height=1080, fps=30)
-}
-
-robot_config = KochFollowerConfig(
-    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem585A0076841",
-    id="my_red_robot_arm",
-    cameras=camera_config
+robot_config = SO101FollowerConfig(
+    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90687491",
+    id="my_follower_arm",
+    cameras={
+        "wrist": OpenCVCameraConfig(index_or_path=0, width=640, height=480, fps=30),
+        "top": OpenCVCameraConfig(index_or_path=1, width=640, height=480, fps=30)
+    }
 )
 
-teleop_config = KochLeaderConfig(
-    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760431551",
-    id="my_blue_leader_arm",
+teleop_config = SO101LeaderConfig(
+    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90689011",
+    id="my_leader_arm",
 )
 
-robot = KochFollower(robot_config)
-teleop_device = KochLeader(teleop_config)
+init_rerun(session_name="teleoperation")
+
+robot = SO101Follower(robot_config)
+teleop_device = SO101Leader(teleop_config)
 robot.connect()
 teleop_device.connect()
 
+TARGET_HZ = 30
+TIME_PER_FRAME = 1.0 / TARGET_HZ
+
 while True:
+    start_time = time.perf_counter()
+
     observation = robot.get_observation()
     action = teleop_device.get_action()
     robot.send_action(action)
+    log_rerun_data(observation=observation, action=action)
+
+    elapsed_time = time.perf_counter() - start_time
+    sleep_time = TIME_PER_FRAME - elapsed_time
+    if sleep_time > 0:
+        time.sleep(sleep_time)
 ```
 <!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
 
@@ -202,10 +216,11 @@ lerobot-record \
 <!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
 ```python
 from lerobot.cameras.opencv import OpenCVCameraConfig
-from lerobot.datasets import LeRobotDataset
+from lerobot.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset
 from lerobot.utils.feature_utils import hw_to_dataset_features
-from lerobot.robots.so_follower import SO100Follower, SO100FollowerConfig
-from lerobot.teleoperators.so_leader import SO100Leader, SO100LeaderConfig
+from lerobot.robots.so_follower import SO101Follower, SO101FollowerConfig
+from lerobot.teleoperators.so_leader.config_so_leader import SO101LeaderConfig
+from lerobot.teleoperators.so_leader.so_leader import SO101Leader
 from lerobot.common.control_utils import init_keyboard_listener
 from lerobot.utils.utils import log_say
 from lerobot.utils.visualization_utils import init_rerun
@@ -218,71 +233,56 @@ EPISODE_TIME_SEC = 60
 RESET_TIME_SEC = 10
 TASK_DESCRIPTION = "My task description"
 
-# Create robot configuration
-robot_config = SO100FollowerConfig(
-    id="my_awesome_follower_arm",
-    cameras={
-        "front": OpenCVCameraConfig(index_or_path=0, width=640, height=480, fps=FPS) # Optional: fourcc="MJPG" for troubleshooting OpenCV async error.
-    },
-    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760434471",
-)
-
-teleop_config = SO100LeaderConfig(
-    id="my_awesome_leader_arm",
-    port="/dev/tty.usbmodem585A0077581",
-)
-
-# Initialize the robot and teleoperator
-robot = SO100Follower(robot_config)
-teleop = SO100Leader(teleop_config)
-
-# Configure the dataset features
-action_features = hw_to_dataset_features(robot.action_features, "action")
-obs_features = hw_to_dataset_features(robot.observation_features, "observation")
-dataset_features = {**action_features, **obs_features}
-
-# Create the dataset
-dataset = LeRobotDataset.create(
-    repo_id="<hf_username>/<dataset_repo_id>",
-    fps=FPS,
-    features=dataset_features,
-    robot_type=robot.name,
-    use_videos=True,
-    image_writer_threads=4,
-)
-
-# Initialize the keyboard listener and rerun visualization
-_, events = init_keyboard_listener()
-init_rerun(session_name="recording")
-
-# Connect the robot and teleoperator
-robot.connect()
-teleop.connect()
-
-# Create the required processors
-teleop_action_processor, robot_action_processor, robot_observation_processor = make_default_processors()
-
-episode_idx = 0
-while episode_idx < NUM_EPISODES and not events["stop_recording"]:
-    log_say(f"Recording episode {episode_idx + 1} of {NUM_EPISODES}")
-
-    record_loop(
-        robot=robot,
-        events=events,
-        fps=FPS,
-        teleop_action_processor=teleop_action_processor,
-        robot_action_processor=robot_action_processor,
-        robot_observation_processor=robot_observation_processor,
-        teleop=teleop,
-        dataset=dataset,
-        control_time_s=EPISODE_TIME_SEC,
-        single_task=TASK_DESCRIPTION,
-        display_data=True,
+def main():
+    # Create robot configuration
+    robot_config = SO101FollowerConfig(
+        port="/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90687491",
+        id="my_follower_arm",
+        cameras={
+            "wrist": OpenCVCameraConfig(index_or_path=0, width=640, height=480, fps=30),
+            "top": OpenCVCameraConfig(index_or_path=1, width=640, height=480, fps=30)
+        }
     )
 
-    # Reset the environment if not stopping or re-recording
-    if not events["stop_recording"] and (episode_idx < NUM_EPISODES - 1 or events["rerecord_episode"]):
-        log_say("Reset the environment")
+    teleop_config = SO101LeaderConfig(
+        port="/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90689011",
+        id="my_leader_arm",
+    )
+
+    # Initialize the robot and teleoperator
+    robot = SO101Follower(robot_config)
+    teleop = SO101Leader(teleop_config)
+
+    # Configure the dataset features
+    action_features = hw_to_dataset_features(robot.action_features, "action")
+    obs_features = hw_to_dataset_features(robot.observation_features, "observation")
+    dataset_features = {**action_features, **obs_features}
+
+    # Create the dataset
+    dataset = LeRobotDataset.create(
+        repo_id="<hf_username>/<dataset_repo_id>",
+        fps=FPS,
+        features=dataset_features,
+        robot_type=robot.name,
+        use_videos=True,
+        image_writer_threads=4,
+    )
+
+    # Initialize the keyboard listener and rerun visualization
+    _, events = init_keyboard_listener()
+    init_rerun(session_name="recording")
+
+    # Connect the robot and teleoperator
+    robot.connect()
+    teleop.connect()
+
+    # Create the required processors
+    teleop_action_processor, robot_action_processor, robot_observation_processor = make_default_processors()
+
+    episode_idx = 0
+    while episode_idx < NUM_EPISODES and not events["stop_recording"]:
+        log_say(f"Recording episode {episode_idx + 1} of {NUM_EPISODES}")
+
         record_loop(
             robot=robot,
             events=events,
@@ -291,26 +291,50 @@ while episode_idx < NUM_EPISODES and not events["stop_recording"]:
             robot_action_processor=robot_action_processor,
             robot_observation_processor=robot_observation_processor,
             teleop=teleop,
-            control_time_s=RESET_TIME_SEC,
+            dataset=dataset,
+            control_time_s=EPISODE_TIME_SEC,
             single_task=TASK_DESCRIPTION,
             display_data=True,
         )
 
-    if events["rerecord_episode"]:
-        log_say("Re-recording episode")
-        events["rerecord_episode"] = False
-        events["exit_early"] = False
-        dataset.clear_episode_buffer()
-        continue
+        # Reset the environment if not stopping or re-recording
+        if not events["stop_recording"] and (episode_idx < NUM_EPISODES - 1 or events["rerecord_episode"]):
+            log_say("Reset the environment")
+            record_loop(
+                robot=robot,
+                events=events,
+                fps=FPS,
+                teleop_action_processor=teleop_action_processor,
+                robot_action_processor=robot_action_processor,
+                robot_observation_processor=robot_observation_processor,
+                teleop=teleop,
+                control_time_s=RESET_TIME_SEC,
+                single_task=TASK_DESCRIPTION,
+                display_data=True,
+            )
 
-    dataset.save_episode()
-    episode_idx += 1
+        if events["rerecord_episode"]:
+            log_say("Re-recording episode")
+            events["rerecord_episode"] = False
+            events["exit_early"] = False
+            dataset.clear_episode_buffer()
+            continue
 
-# Clean up
-log_say("Stop recording")
-robot.disconnect()
-teleop.disconnect()
-dataset.push_to_hub()
+        dataset.save_episode()
+        episode_idx += 1
+
+    # finalize dataset
+    log_say("Finalizing dataset...")
+    dataset.finalize()
+    # Clean up
+    log_say("Stop recording")
+    robot.disconnect()
+    teleop.disconnect()
+    dataset.push_to_hub()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
 ```
 <!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
 
@@ -348,7 +372,7 @@ The `record` function provides a suite of tools for capturing and managing data
 ##### 2. Checkpointing and Resuming
 
 - Checkpoints are automatically created during recording.
-- If an issue occurs, you can resume by re-running the same command with `--resume=true`. When resuming a recording, `--dataset.num_episodes` must be set to the **number of additional episodes to be recorded**, and not to the targeted total number of episodes in the dataset !
+- If an issue occurs or you want to record additional episodes in the same dataset, you can resume by re-running the same command with `--resume=true`. When resuming a recording, `--dataset.num_episodes` must be set to the **number of additional episodes to be recorded**, and not to the targeted total number of episodes in the dataset! Make sure that you also set `--dataset.root="local_path"`, it's a local path to save the new part of the dataset and is required to resume.
 - To start recording from scratch, **manually delete** the dataset directory.
 
 ##### 3. Recording Parameters
@@ -422,7 +446,7 @@ from lerobot.utils.utils import log_say
 
 episode_idx = 0
 
-robot_config = SO100FollowerConfig(port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760434471", id="my_awesome_follower_arm")
+robot_config = SO100FollowerConfig(port="/dev/tty.usbmodem5AB90687491", id="my_follower_arm")
 
 robot = SO100Follower(robot_config)
 robot.connect()
@@ -490,6 +514,83 @@ Additionally you can provide extra `tags` or specify a `license` for your model
 
 If your local computer doesn't have a powerful GPU you could utilize Google Colab to train your model by following the [ACT training notebook](./notebooks#training-act).
 
+#### Train using Hugging Face Jobs
+
+Hugging Face jobs let's you easily select hardware and run the training in the cloud. So if you don't have a powerful GPU or you need more VRAM or just want to train a model much faster use HF Jobs! It's pay as you go and you simply pay for each second of use, you can see the pricing and additional information [here](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs).
+
+To run the training use this command:
+
+<hfoptions id="train_with_hf_jobs">
+<hfoption id="Command">
+```bash
+hf jobs run \
+  --flavor a10g-small \
+  --timeout 4h \
+  --secrets HF_TOKEN \
+  huggingface/lerobot-gpu:latest \
+  -- \
+  python -m lerobot.scripts.lerobot_train \
+    --dataset.repo_id=username/dataset \
+    --policy.type=act \
+    --steps=5000 \
+    --batch_size=16 \
+    --policy.device=cuda \
+    --policy.repo_id=username/your_policy \
+    --log_freq=100
+```
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="API example">
+
+<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
+```python
+from huggingface_hub import run_job, get_token
+
+run_name = "act_so101_hf_jobs"
+dataset_id = "username/dataset"
+user_hub_id = "username"
+
+command_args = [
+    "python", "-m", "lerobot.scripts.lerobot_train",
+    "--dataset.repo_id", dataset_id,
+    "--policy.type", "act",
+    "--steps", "5000",
+    "--batch_size", "16",
+    "--num_workers", "4",
+    "--policy.device", "cuda",
+    "--log_freq", "100",
+    "--save_freq", "1000",
+    "--save_checkpoint", "true",
+    "--wandb.enable", "false",
+    "--policy.repo_id", f"{user_hub_id}/{run_name}"
+]
+
+print(f"Submitting job '{run_name}' to Hugging Face Infrastructure...")
+
+job_info = run_job(
+    image="huggingface/lerobot-gpu:latest",
+    command=command_args,
+    flavor="a10g-small",
+    timeout="4h",
+    secrets={"HF_TOKEN": get_token()}
+)
+
+print("\n🚀 Job successfully launched!")
+print(f"🔹 Job ID: {job_info.id}")
+print(f"🔗 Live UI Dashboard & Logs: {job_info.url}")
+```
+<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
+
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>
+
+You can modify the `--flavor` to use different hardware, for example: `t4-small`, `a100-large`, `h200`. Use `hf jobs hardware` to see the full list with pricing.
+Depending on the model you want to train and the hardware you selected you can also modify the `--batch_size` and `--number_of_workers`.
+For longer training sessions increase the timeout.
+
+Once the training is started you can go to [Jobs](https://huggingface.co/settings/jobs) and see if your jobs is running as well as all the outputs. Sometimes it takes a few minutes to schedule your job so be patient.
+
+After training the model will be pushed to hub and you can use it as any other model with LeRobot.
+
 #### Upload policy checkpoints
 
 Once training is done, upload the latest checkpoint with:

docs/source/smolvla.mdx

@@ -97,22 +97,22 @@ Similarly for when recording an episode, it is recommended that you are logged i
 Once you are logged in, you can run inference in your setup by doing:
 
 ```bash
-lerobot-record \
+lerobot-rollout \
+  --strategy.type=base \
   --robot.type=so101_follower \
   --robot.port=/dev/ttyACM0 \ # <- Use your port
   --robot.id=my_blue_follower_arm \ # <- Use your robot id
   --robot.cameras="{ front: {type: opencv, index_or_path: 8, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}}" \ # <- Use your cameras
-  --dataset.single_task="Grasp a lego block and put it in the bin." \ # <- Use the same task description you used in your dataset recording
-  --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/eval_DATASET_NAME_test \  # <- This will be the dataset name on HF Hub
-  --dataset.episode_time_s=50 \
-  --dataset.num_episodes=10 \
-  --dataset.streaming_encoding=true \
-  --dataset.encoder_threads=2 \
-  # --dataset.camera_encoder.vcodec=auto \
+  --task="Grasp a lego block and put it in the bin." \ # <- Use the same task description you used in your dataset recording
+  # <- RTC optional, use when running on low power hardware \
+  # --inference.type=rtc \
+  # --inference.rtc.execution_horizon=10 \
+  # --inference.rtc.max_guidance_weight=10.0 \
   # <- Teleop optional if you want to teleoperate in between episodes \
   # --teleop.type=so100_leader \
   # --teleop.port=/dev/ttyACM0 \
   # --teleop.id=my_red_leader_arm \
+  # --display_data=true #optional use if you want to see the camera stream \
   --policy.path=HF_USER/FINETUNE_MODEL_NAME # <- Use your fine-tuned model
 ```
 

examples/dataset/create_progress_videos.py

@@ -15,10 +15,12 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 """
-Create MP4 (or GIF) videos with sarm_progress overlay for specified episodes.
+Create MP4 (or GIF) videos with per-frame progress overlay for specified episodes.
 
 Downloads datasets from HuggingFace, seeks directly into the episode segment
 of the source video, draws a progress line on each frame, and writes the result.
+The progress data is read from a parquet file that lives alongside the dataset
+(configurable via ``--progress-file``).
 
 Usage:
     python examples/dataset/create_progress_videos.py \
@@ -56,22 +58,26 @@ SCORE_FONT_SCALE = 0.8
 TASK_FONT_SCALE = 0.55
 
 
-def download_episode_metadata(repo_id: str, episode: int) -> Path:
-    """Download only the metadata and sarm_progress files for a dataset.
+def download_episode_metadata(
+    repo_id: str, episode: int, progress_file: str = "sarm_progress.parquet"
+) -> Path:
+    """Download only the metadata and per-frame progress file for a dataset.
 
     Args:
         repo_id: HuggingFace dataset repository ID.
         episode: Episode index (used for logging only; all meta is fetched).
+        progress_file: Filename of the per-frame progress parquet inside the
+            dataset repo.
 
     Returns:
         Local cache path for the downloaded snapshot.
     """
-    logging.info("[1/4] Downloading metadata for %s (episode %d) ...", repo_id, episode)
+    logging.info("[1/4] Downloading metadata + %s for %s (episode %d) ...", progress_file, repo_id, episode)
     local_path = Path(
         snapshot_download(
             repo_id=repo_id,
             repo_type="dataset",
-            allow_patterns=["meta/**", "sarm_progress.parquet"],
+            allow_patterns=["meta/**", progress_file],
             ignore_patterns=["*.mp4"],
         )
     )
@@ -215,25 +221,28 @@ def download_video_file(repo_id: str, local_path: Path, video_rel: str) -> Path:
     return video_path
 
 
-def load_progress_data(local_path: Path, episode: int) -> np.ndarray | None:
-    """Load sarm_progress values for an episode.
+def load_progress_data(
+    local_path: Path, episode: int, progress_file: str = "sarm_progress.parquet"
+) -> np.ndarray | None:
+    """Load per-frame progress values for an episode.
 
     Args:
         local_path: Dataset cache root.
         episode: Episode index.
+        progress_file: Filename of the per-frame progress parquet.
 
     Returns:
         Sorted (N, 2) array of (frame_index, progress), or None if unavailable.
     """
-    parquet_path = local_path / "sarm_progress.parquet"
+    parquet_path = local_path / progress_file
     if not parquet_path.exists():
-        logging.warning("sarm_progress.parquet not found")
+        logging.warning("%s not found", progress_file)
         return None
     df = pd.read_parquet(parquet_path)
-    logging.info("   sarm_progress.parquet columns: %s", list(df.columns))
+    logging.info("   %s columns: %s", progress_file, list(df.columns))
     episode_df = df[df["episode_index"] == episode].copy()
     if episode_df.empty:
-        logging.warning("No sarm_progress rows for episode %d", episode)
+        logging.warning("No progress rows for episode %d in %s", episode, progress_file)
         return None
     episode_df = episode_df.sort_values("frame_index")
 
@@ -576,6 +585,7 @@ def process_dataset(
     camera_key: str | None,
     output_dir: Path,
     create_gif: bool = False,
+    progress_file: str = "sarm_progress.parquet",
 ) -> Path | None:
     """Full pipeline: download, extract metadata, composite progress, write output.
 
@@ -585,6 +595,8 @@ def process_dataset(
         camera_key: Camera key to use, or None for auto-selection.
         output_dir: Directory to write output files.
         create_gif: If True, also generate a GIF from the MP4.
+        progress_file: Filename of the per-frame progress parquet inside the
+            dataset repo.
 
     Returns:
         Path to the final output file, or None on failure.
@@ -592,7 +604,7 @@ def process_dataset(
     safe_name = repo_id.replace("/", "_")
     logging.info("Processing: %s  |  episode %d", repo_id, episode)
 
-    local_path = download_episode_metadata(repo_id, episode)
+    local_path = download_episode_metadata(repo_id, episode, progress_file)
     logging.info("   Local cache: %s", local_path)
 
     episode_meta = load_episode_meta(local_path, episode, camera_key)
@@ -600,9 +612,9 @@ def process_dataset(
 
     video_path = download_video_file(repo_id, local_path, episode_meta["video_rel"])
 
-    progress_data = load_progress_data(local_path, episode)
+    progress_data = load_progress_data(local_path, episode, progress_file)
     if progress_data is None:
-        logging.error("Could not load sarm_progress data. Skipping overlay.")
+        logging.error("Could not load progress data from %s. Skipping overlay.", progress_file)
         return None
 
     logging.info("   Progress frames: %d", len(progress_data))
@@ -627,7 +639,7 @@ def process_dataset(
 
 def main() -> None:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
-        description="Create MP4/GIF videos with sarm_progress overlay for dataset episodes."
+        description="Create MP4/GIF videos with per-frame progress overlay for dataset episodes."
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--repo-id",
@@ -658,6 +670,15 @@ def main() -> None:
         action="store_true",
         help="Also generate a GIF from the MP4 output.",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--progress-file",
+        type=str,
+        default="sarm_progress.parquet",
+        help=(
+            "Filename of the per-frame progress parquet inside the dataset repo "
+            "(default: 'sarm_progress.parquet')."
+        ),
+    )
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(levelname)s: %(message)s")
@@ -670,6 +691,7 @@ def main() -> None:
         camera_key=args.camera_key,
         output_dir=args.output_dir,
         create_gif=args.gif,
+        progress_file=args.progress_file,
     )
 
     if result:

pyproject.toml

@@ -138,7 +138,9 @@ dataset_viz = ["lerobot[dataset]", "lerobot[viz]"]
 # Common
 av-dep = ["av>=15.0.0,<16.0.0"]
 pygame-dep = ["pygame>=2.5.1,<2.7.0"]
-placo-dep = ["placo>=0.9.6,<0.9.17"]
+# NOTE: 0.9.16 links against liburdfdom_sensor.so.4, which is unavailable on Ubuntu 24.04
+# (noble ships urdfdom 3.x). Cap below 0.9.16 until system urdfdom 4.x is broadly available.
+placo-dep = ["placo>=0.9.6,<0.9.16"]
 transformers-dep = ["transformers>=5.4.0,<5.6.0"]
 grpcio-dep = ["grpcio==1.73.1", "protobuf>=6.31.1,<6.32.0"]
 can-dep = ["python-can>=4.2.0,<5.0.0"]

src/lerobot/configs/parser.py

@@ -255,8 +255,7 @@ def extract_path_fields_from_config(config_path: str, path_fields: list[str]) ->
             remaining = config_data[field]
             if remaining:
                 _config_yaml_overrides[field] = _flatten_to_cli_args(remaining)
-            else:
-                del config_data[field]
+            del config_data[field]
             modified = True
 
     if not modified:
@@ -311,7 +310,13 @@ def wrap(config_path: Path | None = None) -> Callable[[F], F]:
                     cli_args = filter_arg("config_path", cli_args)
                     cfg = argtype.from_pretrained(config_path_cli, cli_args=cli_args)
                 else:
-                    cfg = draccus.parse(config_class=argtype, config_path=config_path, args=cli_args)
+                    if config_path_cli:
+                        cli_args = filter_arg("config_path", cli_args)
+                    cfg = draccus.parse(
+                        config_class=argtype,
+                        config_path=config_path_cli or config_path,
+                        args=cli_args,
+                    )
             response = fn(cfg, *args, **kwargs)
             return response
 

src/lerobot/model/kinematics.py

@@ -18,12 +18,25 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 import numpy as np
 
-from lerobot.utils.import_utils import _placo_available, require_package
+from lerobot.utils.import_utils import require_package
 
-if TYPE_CHECKING or _placo_available:
+_placo_runtime_error: ImportError | None = None
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
     import placo  # type: ignore[import-not-found]
 else:
-    placo = None
+    try:
+        import placo  # type: ignore[import-not-found]
+    except ImportError as _placo_import_err:
+        placo = None
+        _placo_runtime_error = _placo_import_err
+
+
+def _raise_if_placo_unusable() -> None:
+    if placo is None and _placo_runtime_error is not None:
+        raise ImportError(
+            f"placo is installed but failed to import: {_placo_runtime_error!s}"
+        ) from _placo_runtime_error
 
 
 class RobotKinematics:
@@ -44,6 +57,7 @@ class RobotKinematics:
             joint_names (list[str] | None): List of joint names to use for the kinematics solver
         """
         require_package("placo", extra="placo-dep")
+        _raise_if_placo_unusable()
 
         self.robot = placo.RobotWrapper(urdf_path)
         self.solver = placo.KinematicsSolver(self.robot)

src/lerobot/motors/robstride/robstride.py

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from .tables import (
     CAN_CMD_SET_ZERO,
     DEFAULT_BAUDRATE,
     DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS,
+    HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_S,
     MODEL_RESOLUTION,
     MOTOR_LIMIT_PARAMS,
     NORMALIZED_DATA,
@@ -215,14 +216,16 @@ class RobstrideMotorsBus(MotorsBusBase):
             self._is_connected = False
             raise ConnectionError(f"Failed to connect to CAN bus: {e}") from e
 
-    def _query_status_via_clear_fault(self, motor: NameOrID) -> tuple[bool, can.Message | None]:
+    def _query_status_via_clear_fault(
+        self, motor: NameOrID, timeout: float = RUNNING_TIMEOUT
+    ) -> tuple[bool, can.Message | None]:
         motor_name = self._get_motor_name(motor)
         motor_id = self._get_motor_id(motor_name)
         recv_id = self._get_motor_recv_id(motor_name)
         data = [0xFF] * 7 + [CAN_CMD_CLEAR_FAULT]
         msg = can.Message(arbitration_id=motor_id, data=data, is_extended_id=False)
         self._bus().send(msg)
-        return self._recv_status_via_clear_fault(expected_recv_id=recv_id)
+        return self._recv_status_via_clear_fault(expected_recv_id=recv_id, timeout=timeout)
 
     def _recv_status_via_clear_fault(
         self, expected_recv_id: int | None = None, timeout: float = RUNNING_TIMEOUT
@@ -280,7 +283,7 @@ class RobstrideMotorsBus(MotorsBusBase):
         faulted_motors = []
 
         for motor_name in self.motors:
-            has_fault, msg = self._query_status_via_clear_fault(motor_name)
+            has_fault, msg = self._query_status_via_clear_fault(motor_name, timeout=HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_S)
             if msg is None:
                 missing_motors.append(motor_name)
             elif has_fault:
@@ -505,6 +508,87 @@ class RobstrideMotorsBus(MotorsBusBase):
 
         return responses
 
+    def _recv_all_messages_until_quiet(
+        self,
+        *,
+        timeout: float = RUNNING_TIMEOUT,
+        max_messages: int = 4096,
+    ) -> list[can.Message]:
+        """
+        Receive frames until the bus goes quiet.
+
+        Args:
+            timeout: Poll timeout used for each recv() call. Collection stops
+                when one recv() times out (quiet gap).
+            max_messages: Safety cap to prevent unbounded loops.
+        """
+        out: list[can.Message] = []
+        max_messages = max(1, max_messages)
+        timeout = max(0.0, timeout)
+
+        try:
+            while len(out) < max_messages:
+                msg = self._bus().recv(timeout=timeout)
+                if msg is None:
+                    break
+                out.append(msg)
+        except (can.CanError, OSError) as e:
+            logger.debug(f"Error draining CAN RX queue on {self.port}: {e}")
+
+        return out
+
+    def _process_feedback_messages(self, messages: list[can.Message]) -> set[int]:
+        """
+        Decode all received feedback frames and update cached motor states.
+
+        Returns:
+            Set of payload recv_ids that were successfully mapped to motors.
+        """
+        processed_recv_ids: set[int] = set()
+        for msg in messages:
+            if len(msg.data) < 1:
+                logger.debug(
+                    f"Dropping short CAN frame on {self.port} "
+                    f"(arb=0x{int(msg.arbitration_id):02X}, data={bytes(msg.data).hex()})"
+                )
+                continue
+
+            recv_id = int(msg.data[0])
+            motor_name = self._recv_id_to_motor.get(recv_id)
+            if motor_name is None:
+                logger.debug(
+                    f"Unmapped CAN frame on {self.port} "
+                    f"(arb=0x{int(msg.arbitration_id):02X}, recv_id=0x{recv_id:02X}, data={bytes(msg.data).hex()})"
+                )
+                continue
+
+            self._process_response(motor_name, msg)
+            processed_recv_ids.add(recv_id)
+
+        return processed_recv_ids
+
+    def flush_rx_queue(self, poll_timeout_s: float = 0.0005, max_messages: int = 4096) -> int:
+        """
+        Drain pending RX frames from the CAN interface.
+
+        This is used by higher-level controllers to drop stale feedback before issuing
+        a fresh read cycle, so subsequent state reads are based on most recent replies.
+        It should also be called once when a controller instance is created/connected,
+        to clear residual frames left on the interface from previous sessions.
+        """
+        drained = 0
+        poll_timeout_s = max(0.0, poll_timeout_s)
+        max_messages = max(1, max_messages)
+        try:
+            while drained < max_messages:
+                msg = self._bus().recv(timeout=poll_timeout_s)
+                if msg is None:
+                    break
+                drained += 1
+        except (can.CanError, OSError) as e:
+            logger.debug(f"Failed to flush CAN RX queue on {self.port}: {e}")
+        return drained
+
     def _speed_control(
         self,
         motor: NameOrID,
@@ -644,11 +728,14 @@ class RobstrideMotorsBus(MotorsBusBase):
             msg = can.Message(arbitration_id=motor_id, data=data, is_extended_id=False)
             self._bus().send(msg)
             recv_id_to_motor[self._get_motor_recv_id(motor)] = motor_name
+        # Read every feedback frame until RX goes quiet, then decode all of them.
+        # This avoids dropping useful frames when responses from different motors interleave.
+        messages = self._recv_all_messages_until_quiet()
+        processed_recv_ids = self._process_feedback_messages(messages)
 
-        responses = self._recv_all_responses(list(recv_id_to_motor.keys()), timeout=RUNNING_TIMEOUT)
         for recv_id, motor_name in recv_id_to_motor.items():
-            if msg := responses.get(recv_id):
-                self._process_response(motor_name, msg)
+            if recv_id not in processed_recv_ids:
+                logger.warning(f"Packet drop: {motor_name} (ID: 0x{recv_id:02X}). Using last known state.")
 
     def _float_to_uint(self, x: float, x_min: float, x_max: float, bits: int) -> int:
         """Convert float to unsigned integer for CAN transmission."""
@@ -711,7 +798,10 @@ class RobstrideMotorsBus(MotorsBusBase):
         try:
             self._decode_motor_state(msg.data)
         except Exception as e:
-            logger.warning(f"Failed to decode response from {motor}: {e}")
+            logger.warning(
+                f"Failed to decode response from {motor} "
+                f"(arb=0x{int(msg.arbitration_id):02X}, data={bytes(msg.data).hex()}): {e}"
+            )
 
     def _get_cached_value(self, motor: str, data_name: str) -> Value:
         """Retrieve a specific value from the state cache."""
@@ -848,20 +938,12 @@ class RobstrideMotorsBus(MotorsBusBase):
             self._bus().send(msg)
             updated_motors.append(motor)
 
-        expected_recv_ids = [self._get_motor_recv_id(motor) for motor in updated_motors]
-        responses = self._recv_all_responses(expected_recv_ids, timeout=RUNNING_TIMEOUT)
-
-        for response in responses.values():
-            payload_motor_name = self._recv_id_to_motor.get(response.data[0])
-            if payload_motor_name is not None:
-                self._process_response(payload_motor_name, response)
-            else:
-                # Fallback: still attempt to decode based on payload byte0 mapping.
-                self._decode_motor_state(response.data)
+        messages = self._recv_all_messages_until_quiet()
+        processed_recv_ids = self._process_feedback_messages(messages)
 
         for motor in updated_motors:
             recv_id = self._get_motor_recv_id(motor)
-            if recv_id not in responses:
+            if recv_id not in processed_recv_ids:
                 logger.warning(f"Packet drop: {motor} (ID: 0x{recv_id:02X}). Using last known state.")
 
     def read_calibration(self) -> dict[str, MotorCalibration]:

src/lerobot/motors/robstride/tables.py

@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ CAN_CMD_SAVE_PARAM = 0xAA
 CAN_PARAM_ID = 0x7FF
 
 
-RUNNING_TIMEOUT = 0.001
+RUNNING_TIMEOUT = 0.003
+HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_S = 0.05
 PARAM_TIMEOUT = 0.01
 
 STATE_CACHE_TTL_S = 0.02

src/lerobot/policies/groot/eagle2_hg_model/modeling_eagle2_5_vl.py

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ class Eagle25VLPreTrainedModel(PreTrainedModel):
         "SiglipEncoderLayer",
     ]
     _skip_keys_device_placement = "past_key_values"
+    _supports_flash_attn = True
     _supports_flash_attn_2 = True
     _supports_cache_class = True
     _supports_static_cache = True

src/lerobot/policies/groot/eagle2_hg_model/processing_eagle2_5_vl.py

@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ class Eagle25VLProcessor(ProcessorMixin):
         "videos_kwargs",
         "text_kwargs",
     ]
-    image_processor_class = "AutoImageProcessor"
     tokenizer_class = "AutoTokenizer"
 
     def __init__(

src/lerobot/policies/groot/groot_n1.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -26,9 +26,14 @@ from lerobot.utils.import_utils import _transformers_available
 
 # Conditional import for type checking and lazy loading
 if TYPE_CHECKING or _transformers_available:
+    from huggingface_hub.dataclasses import strict
     from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModel, PretrainedConfig, PreTrainedModel
     from transformers.feature_extraction_utils import BatchFeature
 else:
+
+    def strict(cls):
+        return cls
+
     AutoConfig = None
     AutoModel = None
     PretrainedConfig = object
@@ -173,19 +178,20 @@ N_COLOR_CHANNELS = 3
 
 
 # config
+@strict
 class GR00TN15Config(PretrainedConfig):
     model_type = "gr00t_n1_5"
 
-    backbone_cfg: dict
-    action_head_cfg: dict
-    action_horizon: int
-    action_dim: int
+    backbone_cfg: dict[str, Any] | None = None
+    action_head_cfg: dict[str, Any] | None = None
+    action_horizon: int = 0
+    action_dim: int = 0
     compute_dtype: str = "float32"
 
-    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
-        super().__init__(**kwargs)
-        for key, value in kwargs.items():
-            setattr(self, key, value)
+    def __post_init__(self, **kwargs):
+        self.backbone_cfg = {} if self.backbone_cfg is None else self.backbone_cfg
+        self.action_head_cfg = {} if self.action_head_cfg is None else self.action_head_cfg
+        super().__post_init__(**kwargs)
 
 
 # real model

src/lerobot/policies/groot/processor_groot.py

@@ -206,7 +206,11 @@ def _build_eagle_processor(tokenizer_assets_repo: str = DEFAULT_TOKENIZER_ASSETS
             "Vendor files are copied during model creation. Create the policy/model first, "
             "or call ensure_eagle_cache_ready() before building processors."
         )
-    proc = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(str(cache_dir), trust_remote_code=True, use_fast=True)
+    proc = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
+        str(cache_dir),
+        trust_remote_code=True,
+        fix_mistral_regex=False,
+    )
     proc.tokenizer.padding_side = "left"
     return proc
 

src/lerobot/policies/pi0/modeling_pi0.py

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import builtins
-import copy
 import logging
 import math
 from collections import deque
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@ from lerobot.utils.import_utils import _transformers_available, require_package
 
 # Conditional import for type checking and lazy loading
 if TYPE_CHECKING or _transformers_available:
+    from transformers.cache_utils import DynamicCache
     from transformers.models.auto import CONFIG_MAPPING
     from transformers.models.gemma import modeling_gemma
 
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING or _transformers_available:
     )
 else:
     CONFIG_MAPPING = None
+    DynamicCache = None
     modeling_gemma = None
     PiGemmaForCausalLM = None
     _gated_residual = None
@@ -141,6 +142,15 @@ def make_att_2d_masks(pad_masks, att_masks):  # see openpi `make_att_2d_masks` (
     return att_2d_masks & pad_2d_masks
 
 
+def clone_past_key_values(past_key_values):
+    """Clone the DynamicCache returned by prefix prefill for compiled denoising."""
+    return DynamicCache(
+        tuple(
+            (keys.clone(), values.clone(), sliding_window) for keys, values, sliding_window in past_key_values
+        )
+    )
+
+
 def pad_vector(vector, new_dim):
     """Pad the last dimension of a vector to new_dim with zeros.
 
@@ -227,16 +237,13 @@ def resize_with_pad_torch(  # see openpi `resize_with_pad_torch` (exact copy)
 
 
 # Define the complete layer computation function for gradient checkpointing
-def compute_layer_complete(
-    layer_idx, inputs_embeds, attention_mask, position_ids, adarms_cond, paligemma, gemma_expert
-):
-    models = [paligemma.model.language_model, gemma_expert.model]
+def compute_layer_complete(inputs_embeds, attention_mask, position_ids, adarms_cond, layers, rotary_emb):
     query_states = []
     key_states = []
     value_states = []
     gates = []
     for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
-        layer = models[i].layers[layer_idx]
+        layer = layers[i]
         hidden_states, gate = layernorm_forward(layer.input_layernorm, hidden_states, adarms_cond[i])
         gates.append(gate)
         input_shape = hidden_states.shape[:-1]
@@ -258,15 +265,16 @@ def compute_layer_complete(
         device=query_states.device,
         dtype=query_states.dtype,
     )
-    cos, sin = paligemma.model.language_model.rotary_emb(dummy_tensor, position_ids)
+    cos, sin = rotary_emb(dummy_tensor, position_ids)
     query_states, key_states = modeling_gemma.apply_rotary_pos_emb(
         query_states, key_states, cos, sin, unsqueeze_dim=1
     )
     batch_size = query_states.shape[0]
-    scaling = paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn.scaling
+    paligemma_layer = layers[0]
+    scaling = paligemma_layer.self_attn.scaling
     # Attention computation
     att_output, _ = modeling_gemma.eager_attention_forward(
-        paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn,
+        paligemma_layer.self_attn,
         query_states,
         key_states,
         value_states,
@@ -274,13 +282,13 @@ def compute_layer_complete(
         scaling,
     )
     # Get head_dim from the current layer, not from the model
-    head_dim = paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn.head_dim
+    head_dim = paligemma_layer.self_attn.head_dim
     att_output = att_output.reshape(batch_size, -1, 1 * 8 * head_dim)
     # Process layer outputs
     outputs_embeds = []
     start_pos = 0
     for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
-        layer = models[i].layers[layer_idx]
+        layer = layers[i]
         end_pos = start_pos + hidden_states.shape[1]
         if att_output.dtype != layer.self_attn.o_proj.weight.dtype:
             att_output = att_output.to(layer.self_attn.o_proj.weight.dtype)
@@ -488,8 +496,9 @@ class PaliGemmaWithExpertModel(
             prefix_output = None
             prefix_past_key_values = None
         else:
-            models = [self.paligemma.model.language_model, self.gemma_expert.model]
-            num_layers = self.paligemma.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+            paligemma_layers = self.paligemma.model.language_model.layers
+            gemma_expert_layers = self.gemma_expert.model.layers
+            rotary_emb = self.paligemma.model.language_model.rotary_emb
 
             # Check if gradient checkpointing is enabled for any of the models
             use_gradient_checkpointing = (
@@ -499,36 +508,39 @@ class PaliGemmaWithExpertModel(
             ) or (hasattr(self, "gradient_checkpointing") and self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training)
 
             # Process all layers with gradient checkpointing if enabled
-            for layer_idx in range(num_layers):
+            for layers in zip(paligemma_layers, gemma_expert_layers, strict=True):
                 if use_gradient_checkpointing:
                     inputs_embeds = torch.utils.checkpoint.checkpoint(
                         compute_layer_complete,
-                        layer_idx,
                         inputs_embeds,
                         attention_mask,
                         position_ids,
                         adarms_cond,
                         use_reentrant=False,
                         preserve_rng_state=False,
-                        paligemma=self.paligemma,
-                        gemma_expert=self.gemma_expert,
+                        layers=layers,
+                        rotary_emb=rotary_emb,
                     )
                 else:
                     inputs_embeds = compute_layer_complete(
-                        layer_idx,
                         inputs_embeds,
                         attention_mask,
                         position_ids,
                         adarms_cond,
-                        paligemma=self.paligemma,
-                        gemma_expert=self.gemma_expert,
+                        layers=layers,
+                        rotary_emb=rotary_emb,
                     )
 
             # final norm
+            final_norms = (
+                self.paligemma.model.language_model.norm,
+                self.gemma_expert.model.norm,
+            )
+
             def compute_final_norms(inputs_embeds, adarms_cond):
                 outputs_embeds = []
                 for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
-                    out_emb, _ = layernorm_forward(models[i].norm, hidden_states, adarms_cond[i])
+                    out_emb, _ = layernorm_forward(final_norms[i], hidden_states, adarms_cond[i])
                     outputs_embeds.append(out_emb)
                 return outputs_embeds
 
@@ -907,7 +919,7 @@ class PI0Pytorch(nn.Module):  # see openpi `PI0Pytorch`
         full_att_2d_masks_4d = self._prepare_attention_masks_4d(full_att_2d_masks)
         self.paligemma_with_expert.gemma_expert.model.config._attn_implementation = "eager"  # noqa: SLF001
 
-        past_key_values = copy.deepcopy(past_key_values)
+        past_key_values = clone_past_key_values(past_key_values)
         outputs_embeds, _ = self.paligemma_with_expert.forward(
             attention_mask=full_att_2d_masks_4d,
             position_ids=position_ids,

src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import builtins
-import copy
 import logging
 import math
 from collections import deque
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@ from lerobot.utils.import_utils import _transformers_available, require_package
 
 # Conditional import for type checking and lazy loading
 if TYPE_CHECKING or _transformers_available:
+    from transformers.cache_utils import DynamicCache
     from transformers.models.auto import CONFIG_MAPPING
     from transformers.models.gemma import modeling_gemma
 
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING or _transformers_available:
     )
 else:
     CONFIG_MAPPING = None
+    DynamicCache = None
     modeling_gemma = None
     PiGemmaForCausalLM = None
     _gated_residual = None
@@ -138,6 +139,15 @@ def make_att_2d_masks(pad_masks, att_masks):  # see openpi `make_att_2d_masks` (
     return att_2d_masks & pad_2d_masks
 
 
+def clone_past_key_values(past_key_values):
+    """Clone the DynamicCache returned by prefix prefill for compiled denoising."""
+    return DynamicCache(
+        tuple(
+            (keys.clone(), values.clone(), sliding_window) for keys, values, sliding_window in past_key_values
+        )
+    )
+
+
 def pad_vector(vector, new_dim):
     """Pad the last dimension of a vector to new_dim with zeros.
 
@@ -224,16 +234,13 @@ def resize_with_pad_torch(  # see openpi `resize_with_pad_torch` (exact copy)
 
 
 # Define the complete layer computation function for gradient checkpointing
-def compute_layer_complete(
-    layer_idx, inputs_embeds, attention_mask, position_ids, adarms_cond, paligemma, gemma_expert
-):
-    models = [paligemma.model.language_model, gemma_expert.model]
+def compute_layer_complete(inputs_embeds, attention_mask, position_ids, adarms_cond, layers, rotary_emb):
     query_states = []
     key_states = []
     value_states = []
     gates = []
     for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
-        layer = models[i].layers[layer_idx]
+        layer = layers[i]
         hidden_states, gate = layernorm_forward(layer.input_layernorm, hidden_states, adarms_cond[i])
         gates.append(gate)
         input_shape = hidden_states.shape[:-1]
@@ -255,15 +262,16 @@ def compute_layer_complete(
         device=query_states.device,
         dtype=query_states.dtype,
     )
-    cos, sin = paligemma.model.language_model.rotary_emb(dummy_tensor, position_ids)
+    cos, sin = rotary_emb(dummy_tensor, position_ids)
     query_states, key_states = modeling_gemma.apply_rotary_pos_emb(
         query_states, key_states, cos, sin, unsqueeze_dim=1
     )
     batch_size = query_states.shape[0]
-    scaling = paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn.scaling
+    paligemma_layer = layers[0]
+    scaling = paligemma_layer.self_attn.scaling
     # Attention computation
     att_output, _ = modeling_gemma.eager_attention_forward(
-        paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn,
+        paligemma_layer.self_attn,
         query_states,
         key_states,
         value_states,
@@ -271,13 +279,13 @@ def compute_layer_complete(
         scaling,
     )
     # Get head_dim from the current layer, not from the model
-    head_dim = paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn.head_dim
+    head_dim = paligemma_layer.self_attn.head_dim
     att_output = att_output.reshape(batch_size, -1, 1 * 8 * head_dim)
     # Process layer outputs
     outputs_embeds = []
     start_pos = 0
     for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
-        layer = models[i].layers[layer_idx]
+        layer = layers[i]
         end_pos = start_pos + hidden_states.shape[1]
         if att_output.dtype != layer.self_attn.o_proj.weight.dtype:
             att_output = att_output.to(layer.self_attn.o_proj.weight.dtype)
@@ -485,8 +493,9 @@ class PaliGemmaWithExpertModel(
             prefix_output = None
             prefix_past_key_values = None
         else:
-            models = [self.paligemma.model.language_model, self.gemma_expert.model]
-            num_layers = self.paligemma.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+            paligemma_layers = self.paligemma.model.language_model.layers
+            gemma_expert_layers = self.gemma_expert.model.layers
+            rotary_emb = self.paligemma.model.language_model.rotary_emb
 
             # Check if gradient checkpointing is enabled for any of the models
             use_gradient_checkpointing = (
@@ -496,36 +505,39 @@ class PaliGemmaWithExpertModel(
             ) or (hasattr(self, "gradient_checkpointing") and self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training)
 
             # Process all layers with gradient checkpointing if enabled
-            for layer_idx in range(num_layers):
+            for layers in zip(paligemma_layers, gemma_expert_layers, strict=True):
                 if use_gradient_checkpointing:
                     inputs_embeds = torch.utils.checkpoint.checkpoint(
                         compute_layer_complete,
-                        layer_idx,
                         inputs_embeds,
                         attention_mask,
                         position_ids,
                         adarms_cond,
                         use_reentrant=False,
                         preserve_rng_state=False,
-                        paligemma=self.paligemma,
-                        gemma_expert=self.gemma_expert,
+                        layers=layers,
+                        rotary_emb=rotary_emb,
                     )
                 else:
                     inputs_embeds = compute_layer_complete(
-                        layer_idx,
                         inputs_embeds,
                         attention_mask,
                         position_ids,
                         adarms_cond,
-                        paligemma=self.paligemma,
-                        gemma_expert=self.gemma_expert,
+                        layers=layers,
+                        rotary_emb=rotary_emb,
                     )
 
             # final norm
+            final_norms = (
+                self.paligemma.model.language_model.norm,
+                self.gemma_expert.model.norm,
+            )
+
             def compute_final_norms(inputs_embeds, adarms_cond):
                 outputs_embeds = []
                 for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
-                    out_emb, _ = layernorm_forward(models[i].norm, hidden_states, adarms_cond[i])
+                    out_emb, _ = layernorm_forward(final_norms[i], hidden_states, adarms_cond[i])
                     outputs_embeds.append(out_emb)
                 return outputs_embeds
 
@@ -880,7 +892,7 @@ class PI05Pytorch(nn.Module):  # see openpi `PI0Pytorch`
         full_att_2d_masks_4d = self._prepare_attention_masks_4d(full_att_2d_masks)
         self.paligemma_with_expert.gemma_expert.model.config._attn_implementation = "eager"  # noqa: SLF001
 
-        past_key_values = copy.deepcopy(past_key_values)
+        past_key_values = clone_past_key_values(past_key_values)
         outputs_embeds, _ = self.paligemma_with_expert.forward(
             attention_mask=full_att_2d_masks_4d,
             position_ids=position_ids,

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/openpi_pytorch/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"""Lightweight vendored OpenPI PyTorch modules for PI0/PI05 parity tests."""

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/openpi_pytorch/gemma.py

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Config:
+    width: int
+    depth: int
+    mlp_dim: int
+    num_heads: int
+    num_kv_heads: int
+    head_dim: int
+
+
+def get_config(variant: str) -> Config:
+    """Return the Gemma shape config needed by the OpenPI PyTorch model."""
+    if variant == "dummy":
+        return Config(width=64, depth=4, mlp_dim=128, num_heads=8, num_kv_heads=1, head_dim=16)
+    if variant == "gemma_300m":
+        return Config(width=1024, depth=18, mlp_dim=4096, num_heads=8, num_kv_heads=1, head_dim=256)
+    if variant == "gemma_2b":
+        return Config(width=2048, depth=18, mlp_dim=16_384, num_heads=8, num_kv_heads=1, head_dim=256)
+    raise ValueError(f"Unknown variant: {variant}")

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/openpi_pytorch/gemma_pytorch.py

@@ -0,0 +1,300 @@
+from typing import Literal
+
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+from transformers.models.auto import CONFIG_MAPPING
+from transformers.models.gemma import modeling_gemma
+
+from lerobot.policies.pi_gemma import (
+    PaliGemmaForConditionalGenerationWithPiGemma,
+    PiGemmaForCausalLM,
+    _gated_residual,
+    layernorm_forward,
+)
+
+
+class PaliGemmaWithExpertModel(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        vlm_config,
+        action_expert_config,
+        use_adarms=None,
+        precision: Literal["bfloat16", "float32"] = "bfloat16",
+    ):
+        if use_adarms is None:
+            use_adarms = [False, False]
+        super().__init__()
+
+        vlm_config_hf = CONFIG_MAPPING["paligemma"]()
+        vlm_config_hf._vocab_size = 257152  # noqa: SLF001
+        vlm_config_hf.image_token_index = 257152
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.hidden_size = vlm_config.width
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.intermediate_size = vlm_config.mlp_dim
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.num_attention_heads = vlm_config.num_heads
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.head_dim = vlm_config.head_dim
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.num_hidden_layers = vlm_config.depth
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.num_key_value_heads = vlm_config.num_kv_heads
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.hidden_activation = "gelu_pytorch_tanh"
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.dtype = "float32"
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.vocab_size = 257152
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.use_adarms = use_adarms[0]
+        vlm_config_hf.text_config.adarms_cond_dim = vlm_config.width if use_adarms[0] else None
+        vlm_config_hf.vision_config.intermediate_size = 4304
+        vlm_config_hf.vision_config.projection_dim = 2048
+        vlm_config_hf.vision_config.projector_hidden_act = "gelu_fast"
+        vlm_config_hf.vision_config.dtype = "float32"
+
+        action_expert_config_hf = CONFIG_MAPPING["gemma"](
+            head_dim=action_expert_config.head_dim,
+            hidden_size=action_expert_config.width,
+            intermediate_size=action_expert_config.mlp_dim,
+            num_attention_heads=action_expert_config.num_heads,
+            num_hidden_layers=action_expert_config.depth,
+            num_key_value_heads=action_expert_config.num_kv_heads,
+            vocab_size=257152,
+            hidden_activation="gelu_pytorch_tanh",
+            dtype="float32",
+            use_adarms=use_adarms[1],
+            adarms_cond_dim=action_expert_config.width if use_adarms[1] else None,
+        )
+
+        self.paligemma = PaliGemmaForConditionalGenerationWithPiGemma(config=vlm_config_hf)
+        self.gemma_expert = PiGemmaForCausalLM(config=action_expert_config_hf)
+        self.gemma_expert.model.embed_tokens = None
+
+        self.to_bfloat16_for_selected_params(precision)
+
+    def to_bfloat16_for_selected_params(self, precision: Literal["bfloat16", "float32"] = "bfloat16"):
+        if precision == "bfloat16":
+            self.to(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+        elif precision == "float32":
+            self.to(dtype=torch.float32)
+            return
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid precision: {precision}")
+
+        params_to_keep_float32 = [
+            "vision_tower",
+            "multi_modal_projector",
+            "input_layernorm",
+            "post_attention_layernorm",
+            "model.norm",
+        ]
+
+        for name, param in self.named_parameters():
+            if any(selector in name for selector in params_to_keep_float32):
+                param.data = param.data.to(dtype=torch.float32)
+
+    def embed_image(self, image: torch.Tensor):
+        # Transformers 5.4 no longer divides PaliGemma image features by sqrt(hidden_size),
+        # so the upstream helper now matches OpenPI's patched PaliGemma image-scale semantics.
+        # See https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/44432/changes#diff-c916907e7e52ac85ee1a1527560eae4656cd6c76141ceb1fe3da61bd5f697d2a
+        out_dtype = image.dtype
+        if image.dtype != torch.float32:
+            image = image.to(torch.float32)
+        image_outputs = self.paligemma.model.get_image_features(image)
+        features = image_outputs.pooler_output
+        if features.dtype != out_dtype:
+            features = features.to(out_dtype)
+        return features
+
+    def embed_language_tokens(self, tokens: torch.Tensor):
+        return self.paligemma.model.language_model.get_input_embeddings()(tokens)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        position_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None,
+        past_key_values: list[torch.FloatTensor] | None = None,
+        inputs_embeds: list[torch.FloatTensor] | None = None,
+        use_cache: bool | None = None,
+        adarms_cond: list[torch.Tensor] | None = None,
+    ):
+        if adarms_cond is None:
+            adarms_cond = [None, None]
+        if inputs_embeds[1] is None:
+            prefix_output = self.paligemma.model.language_model.forward(
+                inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds[0],
+                attention_mask=attention_mask,
+                position_ids=position_ids,
+                past_key_values=past_key_values,
+                use_cache=use_cache,
+                adarms_cond=adarms_cond[0] if adarms_cond is not None else None,
+            )
+            prefix_past_key_values = prefix_output.past_key_values
+            prefix_output = prefix_output.last_hidden_state
+            suffix_output = None
+        elif inputs_embeds[0] is None:
+            suffix_output = self.gemma_expert.model.forward(
+                inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds[1],
+                attention_mask=attention_mask,
+                position_ids=position_ids,
+                past_key_values=past_key_values,
+                use_cache=use_cache,
+                adarms_cond=adarms_cond[1] if adarms_cond is not None else None,
+            )
+            suffix_output = suffix_output.last_hidden_state
+            prefix_output = None
+            prefix_past_key_values = None
+        else:
+            models = [self.paligemma.model.language_model, self.gemma_expert.model]
+            num_layers = self.paligemma.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+
+            # Check if gradient checkpointing is enabled for any of the models
+            use_gradient_checkpointing = (
+                hasattr(self.gemma_expert.model, "gradient_checkpointing")
+                and self.gemma_expert.model.gradient_checkpointing
+                and self.training
+            ) or (hasattr(self, "gradient_checkpointing") and self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training)
+
+            # Force enable gradient checkpointing if we're in training mode and the model supports it
+            if self.training and hasattr(self.gemma_expert.model, "gradient_checkpointing"):
+                if not self.gemma_expert.model.gradient_checkpointing:
+                    print("Forcing gradient checkpointing to be enabled for Gemma expert model")
+                    self.gemma_expert.model.gradient_checkpointing = True
+                use_gradient_checkpointing = True
+
+            # Debug gradient checkpointing status
+            if hasattr(self, "_debug_gc_printed") and not self._debug_gc_printed:
+                print(f"Gemma expert model gradient checkpointing: {use_gradient_checkpointing}")
+                print(f"Model training mode: {self.training}")
+                print(
+                    f"Gemma expert model has gradient_checkpointing attr: {hasattr(self.gemma_expert.model, 'gradient_checkpointing')}"
+                )
+                if hasattr(self.gemma_expert.model, "gradient_checkpointing"):
+                    print(
+                        f"Gemma expert model gradient_checkpointing value: {self.gemma_expert.model.gradient_checkpointing}"
+                    )
+                self._debug_gc_printed = True
+
+            # Define the complete layer computation function for gradient checkpointing
+            def compute_layer_complete(layer_idx, inputs_embeds, attention_mask, position_ids, adarms_cond):
+                models = [self.paligemma.model.language_model, self.gemma_expert.model]
+
+                query_states = []
+                key_states = []
+                value_states = []
+                gates = []
+                for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
+                    layer = models[i].layers[layer_idx]
+                    hidden_states, gate = layernorm_forward(
+                        layer.input_layernorm, hidden_states, adarms_cond[i]
+                    )
+                    gates.append(gate)
+
+                    input_shape = hidden_states.shape[:-1]
+                    hidden_shape = (*input_shape, -1, layer.self_attn.head_dim)
+                    query_state = layer.self_attn.q_proj(hidden_states).view(hidden_shape).transpose(1, 2)
+                    key_state = layer.self_attn.k_proj(hidden_states).view(hidden_shape).transpose(1, 2)
+                    value_state = layer.self_attn.v_proj(hidden_states).view(hidden_shape).transpose(1, 2)
+
+                    query_states.append(query_state)
+                    key_states.append(key_state)
+                    value_states.append(value_state)
+
+                # Concatenate and process attention
+                query_states = torch.cat(query_states, dim=2)
+                key_states = torch.cat(key_states, dim=2)
+                value_states = torch.cat(value_states, dim=2)
+
+                dummy_tensor = torch.zeros(
+                    query_states.shape[0],
+                    query_states.shape[2],
+                    query_states.shape[-1],
+                    device=query_states.device,
+                    dtype=query_states.dtype,
+                )
+                cos, sin = self.paligemma.model.language_model.rotary_emb(dummy_tensor, position_ids)
+                query_states, key_states = modeling_gemma.apply_rotary_pos_emb(
+                    query_states, key_states, cos, sin, unsqueeze_dim=1
+                )
+
+                batch_size = query_states.shape[0]
+                scaling = self.paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn.scaling
+
+                # Attention computation
+                att_output, _ = modeling_gemma.eager_attention_forward(
+                    self.paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn,
+                    query_states,
+                    key_states,
+                    value_states,
+                    attention_mask,
+                    scaling,
+                )
+                # Get head_dim from the current layer, not from the model
+                head_dim = self.paligemma.model.language_model.layers[layer_idx].self_attn.head_dim
+                att_output = att_output.reshape(batch_size, -1, 1 * 8 * head_dim)
+
+                # Process layer outputs
+                outputs_embeds = []
+                start_pos = 0
+                for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
+                    layer = models[i].layers[layer_idx]
+                    end_pos = start_pos + hidden_states.shape[1]
+
+                    if att_output.dtype != layer.self_attn.o_proj.weight.dtype:
+                        att_output = att_output.to(layer.self_attn.o_proj.weight.dtype)
+                    out_emb = layer.self_attn.o_proj(att_output[:, start_pos:end_pos])
+
+                    # first residual
+                    out_emb = _gated_residual(hidden_states, out_emb, gates[i])
+                    after_first_residual = out_emb.clone()
+                    out_emb, gate = layernorm_forward(layer.post_attention_layernorm, out_emb, adarms_cond[i])
+                    # Convert to bfloat16 if the next layer (mlp) uses bfloat16
+                    if layer.mlp.up_proj.weight.dtype == torch.bfloat16:
+                        out_emb = out_emb.to(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+
+                    out_emb = layer.mlp(out_emb)
+                    # second residual
+                    out_emb = _gated_residual(after_first_residual, out_emb, gate)
+                    outputs_embeds.append(out_emb)
+                    start_pos = end_pos
+
+                return outputs_embeds
+
+            # Process all layers with gradient checkpointing if enabled
+            for layer_idx in range(num_layers):
+                if use_gradient_checkpointing:
+                    inputs_embeds = torch.utils.checkpoint.checkpoint(
+                        compute_layer_complete,
+                        layer_idx,
+                        inputs_embeds,
+                        attention_mask,
+                        position_ids,
+                        adarms_cond,
+                        use_reentrant=False,
+                        preserve_rng_state=False,
+                    )
+                else:
+                    inputs_embeds = compute_layer_complete(
+                        layer_idx, inputs_embeds, attention_mask, position_ids, adarms_cond
+                    )
+
+                # Old code removed - now using compute_layer_complete function above
+
+            # final norm
+            # Define final norm computation function for gradient checkpointing
+            def compute_final_norms(inputs_embeds, adarms_cond):
+                outputs_embeds = []
+                for i, hidden_states in enumerate(inputs_embeds):
+                    out_emb, _ = layernorm_forward(models[i].norm, hidden_states, adarms_cond[i])
+                    outputs_embeds.append(out_emb)
+                return outputs_embeds
+
+            # Apply gradient checkpointing to final norm if enabled
+            if use_gradient_checkpointing:
+                outputs_embeds = torch.utils.checkpoint.checkpoint(
+                    compute_final_norms,
+                    inputs_embeds,
+                    adarms_cond,
+                    use_reentrant=False,
+                    preserve_rng_state=False,
+                )
+            else:
+                outputs_embeds = compute_final_norms(inputs_embeds, adarms_cond)
+
+            prefix_output = outputs_embeds[0]
+            suffix_output = outputs_embeds[1]
+            prefix_past_key_values = None
+
+        return [prefix_output, suffix_output], prefix_past_key_values

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/openpi_pytorch/image_tools.py

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F  # noqa: N812
+
+
+def resize_with_pad_torch(
+    images: torch.Tensor,
+    height: int,
+    width: int,
+    mode: str = "bilinear",
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """PyTorch version of resize_with_pad. Resizes an image to a target height and width without distortion
+    by padding with black. If the image is float32, it must be in the range [-1, 1].
+
+    Args:
+        images: Tensor of shape [*b, h, w, c] or [*b, c, h, w]
+        height: Target height
+        width: Target width
+        mode: Interpolation mode ('bilinear', 'nearest', etc.)
+
+    Returns:
+        Resized and padded tensor with same shape format as input
+    """
+    # Check if input is in channels-last format [*b, h, w, c] or channels-first [*b, c, h, w]
+    if images.shape[-1] <= 4:  # Assume channels-last format
+        channels_last = True
+        # Convert to channels-first for torch operations
+        if images.dim() == 3:
+            images = images.unsqueeze(0)  # Add batch dimension
+        images = images.permute(0, 3, 1, 2)  # [b, h, w, c] -> [b, c, h, w]
+    else:
+        channels_last = False
+        if images.dim() == 3:
+            images = images.unsqueeze(0)  # Add batch dimension
+
+    batch_size, channels, cur_height, cur_width = images.shape
+
+    # Calculate resize ratio
+    ratio = max(cur_width / width, cur_height / height)
+    resized_height = int(cur_height / ratio)
+    resized_width = int(cur_width / ratio)
+
+    # Resize
+    resized_images = F.interpolate(
+        images,
+        size=(resized_height, resized_width),
+        mode=mode,
+        align_corners=False if mode == "bilinear" else None,
+    )
+
+    # Handle dtype-specific clipping
+    if images.dtype == torch.uint8:
+        resized_images = torch.round(resized_images).clamp(0, 255).to(torch.uint8)
+    elif images.dtype == torch.float32:
+        resized_images = resized_images.clamp(-1.0, 1.0)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"Unsupported image dtype: {images.dtype}")
+
+    # Calculate padding
+    pad_h0, remainder_h = divmod(height - resized_height, 2)
+    pad_h1 = pad_h0 + remainder_h
+    pad_w0, remainder_w = divmod(width - resized_width, 2)
+    pad_w1 = pad_w0 + remainder_w
+
+    # Pad
+    constant_value = 0 if images.dtype == torch.uint8 else -1.0
+    padded_images = F.pad(
+        resized_images,
+        (pad_w0, pad_w1, pad_h0, pad_h1),  # left, right, top, bottom
+        mode="constant",
+        value=constant_value,
+    )
+
+    # Convert back to original format if needed
+    if channels_last:
+        padded_images = padded_images.permute(0, 2, 3, 1)  # [b, c, h, w] -> [b, h, w, c]
+        if batch_size == 1 and images.shape[0] == 1:
+            padded_images = padded_images.squeeze(0)  # Remove batch dimension if it was added
+
+    return padded_images

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/openpi_pytorch/pi0_pytorch.py

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+import copy
+import logging
+import math
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F  # noqa: N812
+from torch import Tensor, nn
+
+import tests.policies.pi0_pi05.openpi_pytorch.gemma as _gemma
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.openpi_pytorch import preprocessing_pytorch as _preprocessing
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.openpi_pytorch.gemma_pytorch import PaliGemmaWithExpertModel
+
+
+def get_safe_dtype(target_dtype, device_type):
+    """Get a safe dtype for the given device type."""
+    if device_type == "cpu":
+        # CPU doesn't support bfloat16, use float32 instead
+        if target_dtype == torch.bfloat16:
+            return torch.float32
+        if target_dtype == torch.float64:
+            return torch.float64
+    return target_dtype
+
+
+def create_sinusoidal_pos_embedding(
+    time: torch.tensor, dimension: int, min_period: float, max_period: float, device="cpu"
+) -> Tensor:
+    """Computes sine-cosine positional embedding vectors for scalar positions."""
+    if dimension % 2 != 0:
+        raise ValueError(f"dimension ({dimension}) must be divisible by 2")
+
+    if time.ndim != 1:
+        raise ValueError("The time tensor is expected to be of shape `(batch_size, )`.")
+
+    dtype = get_safe_dtype(torch.float64, device.type)
+    fraction = torch.linspace(0.0, 1.0, dimension // 2, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+    period = min_period * (max_period / min_period) ** fraction
+
+    # Compute the outer product
+    scaling_factor = 1.0 / period * 2 * math.pi
+    sin_input = scaling_factor[None, :] * time[:, None]
+    return torch.cat([torch.sin(sin_input), torch.cos(sin_input)], dim=1)
+
+
+def sample_beta(alpha, beta, bsize, device):
+    alpha_t = torch.as_tensor(alpha, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+    beta_t = torch.as_tensor(beta, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+    dist = torch.distributions.Beta(alpha_t, beta_t)
+    return dist.sample((bsize,))
+
+
+def make_att_2d_masks(pad_masks, att_masks):
+    """Copied from big_vision.
+
+    Tokens can attend to valid inputs tokens which have a cumulative mask_ar
+    smaller or equal to theirs. This way `mask_ar` int[B, N] can be used to
+    setup several types of attention, for example:
+
+      [[1 1 1 1 1 1]]: pure causal attention.
+
+      [[0 0 0 1 1 1]]: prefix-lm attention. The first 3 tokens can attend between
+          themselves and the last 3 tokens have a causal attention. The first
+          entry could also be a 1 without changing behaviour.
+
+      [[1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0]]: causal attention between 4 blocks. Tokens of a
+          block can attend all previous blocks and all tokens on the same block.
+
+    Args:
+      input_mask: bool[B, N] true if its part of the input, false if padding.
+      mask_ar: int32[B, N] mask that's 1 where previous tokens cannot depend on
+        it and 0 where it shares the same attention mask as the previous token.
+    """
+    if att_masks.ndim != 2:
+        raise ValueError(att_masks.ndim)
+    if pad_masks.ndim != 2:
+        raise ValueError(pad_masks.ndim)
+
+    cumsum = torch.cumsum(att_masks, dim=1)
+    att_2d_masks = cumsum[:, None, :] <= cumsum[:, :, None]
+    pad_2d_masks = pad_masks[:, None, :] * pad_masks[:, :, None]
+    return att_2d_masks & pad_2d_masks
+
+
+class PI0Pytorch(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.config = config
+        self.pi05 = config.pi05
+
+        paligemma_config = _gemma.get_config(config.paligemma_variant)
+        action_expert_config = _gemma.get_config(config.action_expert_variant)
+
+        self.paligemma_with_expert = PaliGemmaWithExpertModel(
+            paligemma_config,
+            action_expert_config,
+            use_adarms=[False, True] if self.pi05 else [False, False],
+            precision=config.dtype,
+        )
+
+        self.action_in_proj = nn.Linear(config.action_dim, action_expert_config.width)
+        self.action_out_proj = nn.Linear(action_expert_config.width, config.action_dim)
+
+        if self.pi05:
+            self.time_mlp_in = nn.Linear(action_expert_config.width, action_expert_config.width)
+            self.time_mlp_out = nn.Linear(action_expert_config.width, action_expert_config.width)
+        else:
+            self.state_proj = nn.Linear(config.action_dim, action_expert_config.width)
+            self.action_time_mlp_in = nn.Linear(2 * action_expert_config.width, action_expert_config.width)
+            self.action_time_mlp_out = nn.Linear(action_expert_config.width, action_expert_config.width)
+
+        torch.set_float32_matmul_precision("high")
+        if config.pytorch_compile_mode is not None:
+            self.sample_actions = torch.compile(self.sample_actions, mode=config.pytorch_compile_mode)
+
+        # Initialize gradient checkpointing flag
+        self.gradient_checkpointing_enabled = False
+
+        # The upstream OpenPI module verifies a site-package Transformers patch here.
+        # This vendored test copy instead routes through LeRobot's local PiGemma compatibility layer.
+
+    def gradient_checkpointing_enable(self):
+        """Enable gradient checkpointing for memory optimization."""
+        self.gradient_checkpointing_enabled = True
+        self.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.model.language_model.gradient_checkpointing = True
+        self.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.model.vision_tower.gradient_checkpointing = True
+        self.paligemma_with_expert.gemma_expert.model.gradient_checkpointing = True
+
+        logging.info("Enabled gradient checkpointing for PI0Pytorch model")
+
+    def gradient_checkpointing_disable(self):
+        """Disable gradient checkpointing."""
+        self.gradient_checkpointing_enabled = False
+        self.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.model.language_model.gradient_checkpointing = False
+        self.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.model.vision_tower.gradient_checkpointing = False
+        self.paligemma_with_expert.gemma_expert.model.gradient_checkpointing = False
+
+        logging.info("Disabled gradient checkpointing for PI0Pytorch model")
+
+    def is_gradient_checkpointing_enabled(self):
+        """Check if gradient checkpointing is enabled."""
+        return self.gradient_checkpointing_enabled
+
+    def _apply_checkpoint(self, func, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Helper method to apply gradient checkpointing if enabled."""
+        if self.gradient_checkpointing_enabled and self.training:
+            return torch.utils.checkpoint.checkpoint(
+                func, *args, use_reentrant=False, preserve_rng_state=False, **kwargs
+            )
+        return func(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def _prepare_attention_masks_4d(self, att_2d_masks):
+        """Helper method to prepare 4D attention masks for transformer."""
+        att_2d_masks_4d = att_2d_masks[:, None, :, :]
+        return torch.where(att_2d_masks_4d, 0.0, -2.3819763e38)
+
+    def _preprocess_observation(self, observation, *, train=True):
+        """Helper method to preprocess observation."""
+        observation = _preprocessing.preprocess_observation_pytorch(observation, train=train)
+        return (
+            list(observation.images.values()),
+            list(observation.image_masks.values()),
+            observation.tokenized_prompt,
+            observation.tokenized_prompt_mask,
+            observation.state,
+        )
+
+    def sample_noise(self, shape, device):
+        return torch.normal(
+            mean=0.0,
+            std=1.0,
+            size=shape,
+            dtype=torch.float32,
+            device=device,
+        )
+
+    def sample_time(self, bsize, device):
+        time_beta = sample_beta(1.5, 1.0, bsize, device)
+        time = time_beta * 0.999 + 0.001
+        return time.to(dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+
+    def embed_prefix(
+        self, images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        """Embed images with SigLIP and language tokens with embedding layer to prepare
+        for PaliGemma transformer processing.
+        """
+        embs = []
+        pad_masks = []
+        att_masks = []
+
+        # Process images
+        for img, img_mask in zip(images, img_masks, strict=True):
+
+            def image_embed_func(img):
+                return self.paligemma_with_expert.embed_image(img)
+
+            img_emb = self._apply_checkpoint(image_embed_func, img)
+
+            bsize, num_img_embs = img_emb.shape[:2]
+
+            embs.append(img_emb)
+            pad_masks.append(img_mask[:, None].expand(bsize, num_img_embs))
+
+            # Create attention masks so that image tokens attend to each other
+            att_masks += [0] * num_img_embs
+
+        # Process language tokens
+        def lang_embed_func(lang_tokens):
+            lang_emb = self.paligemma_with_expert.embed_language_tokens(lang_tokens)
+            # Transformers > 5.4 scales Gemma token embeddings inside embed_tokens, matching
+            # OpenPI's former explicit sqrt(hidden_size) multiply without applying it twice.
+            # See https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/44432/changes#diff-5f76eac6f18f4b491521314c318a9692318feb4d19228e9576cce7bde4240834
+            return lang_emb
+
+        lang_emb = self._apply_checkpoint(lang_embed_func, lang_tokens)
+
+        embs.append(lang_emb)
+        pad_masks.append(lang_masks)
+
+        # full attention between image and language inputs
+        num_lang_embs = lang_emb.shape[1]
+        att_masks += [0] * num_lang_embs
+
+        embs = torch.cat(embs, dim=1)
+        pad_masks = torch.cat(pad_masks, dim=1)
+        att_masks = torch.tensor(att_masks, dtype=torch.bool, device=pad_masks.device)
+
+        # Get batch size from the first dimension of the concatenated tensors
+        bsize = pad_masks.shape[0]
+        att_masks = att_masks[None, :].expand(bsize, len(att_masks))
+
+        return embs, pad_masks, att_masks
+
+    def embed_suffix(self, state, noisy_actions, timestep):
+        """Embed state, noisy_actions, timestep to prepare for Expert Gemma processing."""
+        embs = []
+        pad_masks = []
+        att_masks = []
+
+        if not self.pi05:
+            if self.state_proj.weight.dtype == torch.float32:
+                state = state.to(torch.float32)
+
+            # Embed state
+            def state_proj_func(state):
+                return self.state_proj(state)
+
+            state_emb = self._apply_checkpoint(state_proj_func, state)
+
+            embs.append(state_emb[:, None, :])
+            bsize = state_emb.shape[0]
+            device = state_emb.device
+
+            state_mask = torch.ones(bsize, 1, dtype=torch.bool, device=device)
+            pad_masks.append(state_mask)
+
+            # Set attention masks so that image and language inputs do not attend to state or actions
+            att_masks += [1]
+
+        # Embed timestep using sine-cosine positional encoding with sensitivity in the range [0, 1]
+        time_emb = create_sinusoidal_pos_embedding(
+            timestep,
+            self.action_in_proj.out_features,
+            min_period=4e-3,
+            max_period=4.0,
+            device=timestep.device,
+        )
+        time_emb = time_emb.type(dtype=timestep.dtype)
+
+        # Fuse timestep + action information using an MLP
+        def action_proj_func(noisy_actions):
+            return self.action_in_proj(noisy_actions)
+
+        action_emb = self._apply_checkpoint(action_proj_func, noisy_actions)
+
+        if not self.pi05:
+            time_emb = time_emb[:, None, :].expand_as(action_emb)
+            action_time_emb = torch.cat([action_emb, time_emb], dim=2)
+
+            # Apply MLP layers
+            def mlp_func(action_time_emb):
+                x = self.action_time_mlp_in(action_time_emb)
+                x = F.silu(x)  # swish == silu
+                return self.action_time_mlp_out(x)
+
+            action_time_emb = self._apply_checkpoint(mlp_func, action_time_emb)
+            adarms_cond = None
+        else:
+            # time MLP (for adaRMS)
+            def time_mlp_func(time_emb):
+                x = self.time_mlp_in(time_emb)
+                x = F.silu(x)  # swish == silu
+                x = self.time_mlp_out(x)
+                return F.silu(x)
+
+            time_emb = self._apply_checkpoint(time_mlp_func, time_emb)
+            action_time_emb = action_emb
+            adarms_cond = time_emb
+
+        # Add to input tokens
+        embs.append(action_time_emb)
+
+        bsize, action_time_dim = action_time_emb.shape[:2]
+        action_time_mask = torch.ones(bsize, action_time_dim, dtype=torch.bool, device=timestep.device)
+        pad_masks.append(action_time_mask)
+
+        # Set attention masks so that image, language and state inputs do not attend to action tokens
+        att_masks += [1] + ([0] * (self.config.action_horizon - 1))
+
+        embs = torch.cat(embs, dim=1)
+        pad_masks = torch.cat(pad_masks, dim=1)
+        att_masks = torch.tensor(att_masks, dtype=embs.dtype, device=embs.device)
+        att_masks = att_masks[None, :].expand(bsize, len(att_masks))
+
+        return embs, pad_masks, att_masks, adarms_cond
+
+    def forward(self, observation, actions, noise=None, time=None) -> Tensor:
+        """Do a full training forward pass and compute the loss (batch_size x num_steps x num_motors)"""
+        images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks, state = self._preprocess_observation(
+            observation, train=True
+        )
+
+        if noise is None:
+            noise = self.sample_noise(actions.shape, actions.device)
+
+        if time is None:
+            time = self.sample_time(actions.shape[0], actions.device)
+
+        time_expanded = time[:, None, None]
+        x_t = time_expanded * noise + (1 - time_expanded) * actions
+        u_t = noise - actions
+
+        prefix_embs, prefix_pad_masks, prefix_att_masks = self.embed_prefix(
+            images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks
+        )
+        suffix_embs, suffix_pad_masks, suffix_att_masks, adarms_cond = self.embed_suffix(state, x_t, time)
+        if (
+            self.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.model.language_model.layers[0].self_attn.q_proj.weight.dtype
+            == torch.bfloat16
+        ):
+            suffix_embs = suffix_embs.to(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+            prefix_embs = prefix_embs.to(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+
+        pad_masks = torch.cat([prefix_pad_masks, suffix_pad_masks], dim=1)
+        att_masks = torch.cat([prefix_att_masks, suffix_att_masks], dim=1)
+
+        att_2d_masks = make_att_2d_masks(pad_masks, att_masks)
+        position_ids = torch.cumsum(pad_masks, dim=1) - 1
+
+        # Prepare attention masks
+        att_2d_masks_4d = self._prepare_attention_masks_4d(att_2d_masks)
+
+        # Apply gradient checkpointing if enabled
+        def forward_func(prefix_embs, suffix_embs, att_2d_masks_4d, position_ids, adarms_cond):
+            (_, suffix_out), _ = self.paligemma_with_expert.forward(
+                attention_mask=att_2d_masks_4d,
+                position_ids=position_ids,
+                past_key_values=None,
+                inputs_embeds=[prefix_embs, suffix_embs],
+                use_cache=False,
+                adarms_cond=[None, adarms_cond],
+            )
+            return suffix_out
+
+        suffix_out = self._apply_checkpoint(
+            forward_func, prefix_embs, suffix_embs, att_2d_masks_4d, position_ids, adarms_cond
+        )
+
+        suffix_out = suffix_out[:, -self.config.action_horizon :]
+        suffix_out = suffix_out.to(dtype=torch.float32)
+
+        # Apply gradient checkpointing to final action projection if enabled
+        def action_out_proj_func(suffix_out):
+            return self.action_out_proj(suffix_out)
+
+        v_t = self._apply_checkpoint(action_out_proj_func, suffix_out)
+
+        return F.mse_loss(u_t, v_t, reduction="none")
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def sample_actions(self, device, observation, noise=None, num_steps=10) -> Tensor:
+        """Do a full inference forward and compute the action (batch_size x num_steps x num_motors)"""
+        bsize = observation.state.shape[0]
+        if noise is None:
+            actions_shape = (bsize, self.config.action_horizon, self.config.action_dim)
+            noise = self.sample_noise(actions_shape, device)
+
+        images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks, state = self._preprocess_observation(
+            observation, train=False
+        )
+
+        prefix_embs, prefix_pad_masks, prefix_att_masks = self.embed_prefix(
+            images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks
+        )
+        prefix_att_2d_masks = make_att_2d_masks(prefix_pad_masks, prefix_att_masks)
+        prefix_position_ids = torch.cumsum(prefix_pad_masks, dim=1) - 1
+
+        # Compute image and language key value cache
+        prefix_att_2d_masks_4d = self._prepare_attention_masks_4d(prefix_att_2d_masks)
+        self.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.model.language_model.config._attn_implementation = "eager"  # noqa: SLF001
+
+        _, past_key_values = self.paligemma_with_expert.forward(
+            attention_mask=prefix_att_2d_masks_4d,
+            position_ids=prefix_position_ids,
+            past_key_values=None,
+            inputs_embeds=[prefix_embs, None],
+            use_cache=True,
+        )
+
+        dt = -1.0 / num_steps
+        dt = torch.tensor(dt, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+
+        x_t = noise
+        time = torch.tensor(1.0, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+        while time >= -dt / 2:
+            expanded_time = time.expand(bsize)
+            v_t = self.denoise_step(
+                state,
+                prefix_pad_masks,
+                past_key_values,
+                x_t,
+                expanded_time,
+            )
+
+            # Euler step - use new tensor assignment instead of in-place operation
+            x_t = x_t + dt * v_t
+            time += dt
+        return x_t
+
+    def denoise_step(
+        self,
+        state,
+        prefix_pad_masks,
+        past_key_values,
+        x_t,
+        timestep,
+    ):
+        """Apply one denoising step of the noise `x_t` at a given timestep."""
+        suffix_embs, suffix_pad_masks, suffix_att_masks, adarms_cond = self.embed_suffix(state, x_t, timestep)
+
+        suffix_len = suffix_pad_masks.shape[1]
+        batch_size = prefix_pad_masks.shape[0]
+        prefix_len = prefix_pad_masks.shape[1]
+
+        prefix_pad_2d_masks = prefix_pad_masks[:, None, :].expand(batch_size, suffix_len, prefix_len)
+
+        suffix_att_2d_masks = make_att_2d_masks(suffix_pad_masks, suffix_att_masks)
+
+        full_att_2d_masks = torch.cat([prefix_pad_2d_masks, suffix_att_2d_masks], dim=2)
+
+        prefix_offsets = torch.sum(prefix_pad_masks, dim=-1)[:, None]
+        position_ids = prefix_offsets + torch.cumsum(suffix_pad_masks, dim=1) - 1
+
+        # Prepare attention masks
+        full_att_2d_masks_4d = self._prepare_attention_masks_4d(full_att_2d_masks)
+        self.paligemma_with_expert.gemma_expert.model.config._attn_implementation = "eager"  # noqa: SLF001
+
+        past_key_values = copy.deepcopy(past_key_values)
+        outputs_embeds, _ = self.paligemma_with_expert.forward(
+            attention_mask=full_att_2d_masks_4d,
+            position_ids=position_ids,
+            past_key_values=past_key_values,
+            inputs_embeds=[None, suffix_embs],
+            use_cache=False,
+            adarms_cond=[None, adarms_cond],
+        )
+
+        suffix_out = outputs_embeds[1]
+        suffix_out = suffix_out[:, -self.config.action_horizon :]
+        suffix_out = suffix_out.to(dtype=torch.float32)
+        return self.action_out_proj(suffix_out)

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/openpi_pytorch/preprocessing_pytorch.py

@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+import logging
+from collections.abc import Sequence
+
+import torch
+
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.openpi_pytorch import image_tools
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("openpi")
+
+# Constants moved from model.py
+IMAGE_KEYS = (
+    "base_0_rgb",
+    "left_wrist_0_rgb",
+    "right_wrist_0_rgb",
+)
+
+IMAGE_RESOLUTION = (224, 224)
+
+
+def preprocess_observation_pytorch(
+    observation,
+    *,
+    train: bool = False,
+    image_keys: Sequence[str] = IMAGE_KEYS,
+    image_resolution: tuple[int, int] = IMAGE_RESOLUTION,
+):
+    """Torch.compile-compatible version of preprocess_observation_pytorch with simplified type annotations.
+
+    This function avoids complex type annotations that can cause torch.compile issues.
+    """
+    if not set(image_keys).issubset(observation.images):
+        raise ValueError(f"images dict missing keys: expected {image_keys}, got {list(observation.images)}")
+
+    batch_shape = observation.state.shape[:-1]
+
+    out_images = {}
+    for key in image_keys:
+        image = observation.images[key]
+
+        # TODO: This is a hack to handle both [B, C, H, W] and [B, H, W, C] formats
+        # Handle both [B, C, H, W] and [B, H, W, C] formats
+        is_channels_first = image.shape[1] == 3  # Check if channels are in dimension 1
+
+        if is_channels_first:
+            # Convert [B, C, H, W] to [B, H, W, C] for processing
+            image = image.permute(0, 2, 3, 1)
+
+        if image.shape[1:3] != image_resolution:
+            logger.info(f"Resizing image {key} from {image.shape[1:3]} to {image_resolution}")
+            image = image_tools.resize_with_pad_torch(image, *image_resolution)
+
+        if train:
+            # Convert from [-1, 1] to [0, 1] for PyTorch augmentations
+            image = image / 2.0 + 0.5
+
+            # Apply PyTorch-based augmentations
+            if "wrist" not in key:
+                # Geometric augmentations for non-wrist cameras
+                height, width = image.shape[1:3]
+
+                # Random crop and resize
+                crop_height = int(height * 0.95)
+                crop_width = int(width * 0.95)
+
+                # Random crop
+                max_h = height - crop_height
+                max_w = width - crop_width
+                if max_h > 0 and max_w > 0:
+                    # Use tensor operations instead of .item() for torch.compile compatibility
+                    start_h = torch.randint(0, max_h + 1, (1,), device=image.device)
+                    start_w = torch.randint(0, max_w + 1, (1,), device=image.device)
+                    image = image[:, start_h : start_h + crop_height, start_w : start_w + crop_width, :]
+
+                # Resize back to original size
+                image = torch.nn.functional.interpolate(
+                    image.permute(0, 3, 1, 2),  # [b, h, w, c] -> [b, c, h, w]
+                    size=(height, width),
+                    mode="bilinear",
+                    align_corners=False,
+                ).permute(0, 2, 3, 1)  # [b, c, h, w] -> [b, h, w, c]
+
+                # Random rotation (small angles)
+                # Use tensor operations instead of .item() for torch.compile compatibility
+                angle = torch.rand(1, device=image.device) * 10 - 5  # Random angle between -5 and 5 degrees
+                if torch.abs(angle) > 0.1:  # Only rotate if angle is significant
+                    # Convert to radians
+                    angle_rad = angle * torch.pi / 180.0
+
+                    # Create rotation matrix
+                    cos_a = torch.cos(angle_rad)
+                    sin_a = torch.sin(angle_rad)
+
+                    # Apply rotation using grid_sample
+                    grid_x = torch.linspace(-1, 1, width, device=image.device)
+                    grid_y = torch.linspace(-1, 1, height, device=image.device)
+
+                    # Create meshgrid
+                    grid_y, grid_x = torch.meshgrid(grid_y, grid_x, indexing="ij")
+
+                    # Expand to batch dimension
+                    grid_x = grid_x.unsqueeze(0).expand(image.shape[0], -1, -1)
+                    grid_y = grid_y.unsqueeze(0).expand(image.shape[0], -1, -1)
+
+                    # Apply rotation transformation
+                    grid_x_rot = grid_x * cos_a - grid_y * sin_a
+                    grid_y_rot = grid_x * sin_a + grid_y * cos_a
+
+                    # Stack and reshape for grid_sample
+                    grid = torch.stack([grid_x_rot, grid_y_rot], dim=-1)
+
+                    image = torch.nn.functional.grid_sample(
+                        image.permute(0, 3, 1, 2),  # [b, h, w, c] -> [b, c, h, w]
+                        grid,
+                        mode="bilinear",
+                        padding_mode="zeros",
+                        align_corners=False,
+                    ).permute(0, 2, 3, 1)  # [b, c, h, w] -> [b, h, w, c]
+
+            # Color augmentations for all cameras
+            # Random brightness
+            # Use tensor operations instead of .item() for torch.compile compatibility
+            brightness_factor = (
+                0.7 + torch.rand(1, device=image.device) * 0.6
+            )  # Random factor between 0.7 and 1.3
+            image = image * brightness_factor
+
+            # Random contrast
+            # Use tensor operations instead of .item() for torch.compile compatibility
+            contrast_factor = (
+                0.6 + torch.rand(1, device=image.device) * 0.8
+            )  # Random factor between 0.6 and 1.4
+            mean = image.mean(dim=[1, 2, 3], keepdim=True)
+            image = (image - mean) * contrast_factor + mean
+
+            # Random saturation (convert to HSV, modify S, convert back)
+            # For simplicity, we'll just apply a random scaling to the color channels
+            # Use tensor operations instead of .item() for torch.compile compatibility
+            saturation_factor = (
+                0.5 + torch.rand(1, device=image.device) * 1.0
+            )  # Random factor between 0.5 and 1.5
+            gray = image.mean(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+            image = gray + (image - gray) * saturation_factor
+
+            # Clamp values to [0, 1]
+            image = torch.clamp(image, 0, 1)
+
+            # Back to [-1, 1]
+            image = image * 2.0 - 1.0
+
+        # Convert back to [B, C, H, W] format if it was originally channels-first
+        if is_channels_first:
+            image = image.permute(0, 3, 1, 2)  # [B, H, W, C] -> [B, C, H, W]
+
+        out_images[key] = image
+
+    # obtain mask
+    out_masks = {}
+    for key in out_images:
+        if key not in observation.image_masks:
+            # do not mask by default
+            out_masks[key] = torch.ones(batch_shape, dtype=torch.bool, device=observation.state.device)
+        else:
+            out_masks[key] = observation.image_masks[key]
+
+    # Create a simple object with the required attributes instead of using the complex Observation class
+    class SimpleProcessedObservation:
+        def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+            for key, value in kwargs.items():
+                setattr(self, key, value)
+
+    return SimpleProcessedObservation(
+        images=out_images,
+        image_masks=out_masks,
+        state=observation.state,
+        tokenized_prompt=observation.tokenized_prompt,
+        tokenized_prompt_mask=observation.tokenized_prompt_mask,
+        token_ar_mask=observation.token_ar_mask,
+        token_loss_mask=observation.token_loss_mask,
+    )

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/test_pi05_compile.py

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+pytest.importorskip("transformers")
+
+from lerobot.policies.pi05 import PI05Config  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi05.modeling_pi05 import PI05Pytorch  # noqa: E402
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.utils.torch_compile import (  # noqa: E402
+    assert_cache_stability,
+    assert_compiled_output_matches_eager,
+    assert_explain_has_no_graph_breaks,
+    benchmark_runtime,
+    make_compile_config,
+    reset_compile_state,
+)
+from tests.utils import require_cuda  # noqa: E402
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    os.environ.get("CI") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true",
+    reason="torch.compile benchmark is too slow for CI; run manually on GPU nodes",
+)
+
+
+def _make_model(*, compile_model):
+    return PI05Pytorch(make_compile_config(PI05Config, compile_model=compile_model)).cuda().eval()
+
+
+def _make_dummy_inputs(config):
+    device = torch.device("cuda")
+    common = {
+        "images": [torch.randn(1, 3, *config.image_resolution, device=device)],
+        "img_masks": [torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.bool, device=device)],
+        "tokens": torch.randint(0, 1024, (1, 5), dtype=torch.long, device=device),
+        "masks": torch.ones(1, 5, dtype=torch.bool, device=device),
+    }
+    forward_kwargs = {
+        **common,
+        "actions": torch.randn(1, config.chunk_size, config.max_action_dim, device=device),
+        "noise": torch.randn(1, config.chunk_size, config.max_action_dim, device=device),
+        "time": torch.rand(1, device=device),
+    }
+    sample_kwargs = {
+        **common,
+        "noise": torch.randn(1, config.chunk_size, config.max_action_dim, device=device),
+        "num_steps": config.num_inference_steps,
+    }
+    return forward_kwargs, sample_kwargs
+
+
+@require_cuda
+def test_pi05_torch_compile_forward_and_sample_actions():
+    if not hasattr(torch, "compile"):
+        pytest.skip("torch.compile is not available")
+    if not torch._dynamo.is_dynamo_supported():
+        pytest.skip("torch._dynamo is not supported on this platform")
+
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    eager_model = _make_model(compile_model=False)
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    compiled_model = _make_model(compile_model=True)
+    forward_kwargs, sample_kwargs = _make_dummy_inputs(compiled_model.config)
+
+    try:
+        assert_compiled_output_matches_eager(eager_model, compiled_model, forward_kwargs, sample_kwargs)
+
+        assert_explain_has_no_graph_breaks(eager_model.forward, forward_kwargs, "pi05.forward")
+        assert_explain_has_no_graph_breaks(eager_model.sample_actions, sample_kwargs, "pi05.sample_actions")
+
+        assert_cache_stability(compiled_model.forward, forward_kwargs, "pi05.forward")
+        assert_cache_stability(compiled_model.sample_actions, sample_kwargs, "pi05.sample_actions")
+
+        benchmark_runtime(eager_model.forward, compiled_model.forward, forward_kwargs, "pi05.forward")
+        benchmark_runtime(
+            eager_model.sample_actions,
+            compiled_model.sample_actions,
+            sample_kwargs,
+            "pi05.sample_actions",
+        )
+    finally:
+        reset_compile_state()
+        del eager_model
+        del compiled_model
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/test_pi05_original_vs_lerobot.py

@@ -14,52 +14,56 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-"""Test script to verify PI0OpenPI policy integration with LeRobot vs the original implementation"""
+"""Compare LeRobot PI0.5 against the vendored OpenPI PyTorch reference."""
 
+import gc
 import os
-from copy import deepcopy
-from typing import Any
 
-import numpy as np
 import pytest
 import torch
 
-# Skip if openpi or transformers is not available
-pytest.importorskip("openpi")
 pytest.importorskip("transformers")
 
-# Skip this entire module in CI
-pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
-    os.environ.get("CI") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true",
-    reason="This test requires local OpenPI installation and is not meant for CI",
+from lerobot.configs import PreTrainedConfig  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi05 import PI05Policy  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi05.processor_pi05 import make_pi05_pre_post_processors  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.utils.constants import ACTION, OBS_STATE  # noqa: E402
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.openpi_pytorch.pi0_pytorch import PI0Pytorch  # noqa: E402
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.utils.openpi_parity import (  # noqa: E402
+    assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot,
+    clone_batch,
+    deterministic_openpi_forward_preprocess,
+    fix_reference_state_dict,
+    fixed_flow_sampling,
+    load_openpi_reference_state_dict,
+    make_openpi_observation_from_raw,
+    openpi_model_actions_from_raw,
 )
 
-from openpi.models_pytorch import preprocessing_pytorch as openpi_preprocessing  # noqa: E402
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    os.environ.get("CI") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true",
+    reason="OpenPI parity and torch.compile checks are too slow for CI; run manually on GPU nodes",
+)
 
-# NOTE: Assumes PYTHONPATH is set to include OpenPI src as per instructions.
-from openpi.models_pytorch.pi0_pytorch import PI0Pytorch  # noqa: E402
-from transformers import AutoTokenizer  # noqa: E402
-
-from lerobot.policies.pi05 import PI05Config, PI05Policy  # noqa: E402
-from lerobot.policies.pi05.processor_pi05 import make_pi05_pre_post_processors  # noqa: E402
-from lerobot.processor import PolicyProcessorPipeline  # noqa: E402
-from lerobot.types import PolicyAction  # noqa: E402
-
-# TODO: ADDING DEFAULT IMAGES_FEATURES TO CONFIG
 DUMMY_ACTION_DIM = 32
 DUMMY_STATE_DIM = 32
 DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON = 50
 DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN = 200
-DEVICE = "cpu"  # Use CPU to avoid memory issues for testing
+DEVICE = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+COMPILE_MODE = "default"
+FORWARD_RTOL = 1e-4
+FORWARD_ATOL = 1e-4
+SAMPLE_RTOL = 1e-2
+SAMPLE_ATOL = 5e-3
 
 DUMMY_DATASET_STATS = {
-    "observation.state": {
+    OBS_STATE: {
         "mean": torch.zeros(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
         "std": torch.ones(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
         "q01": torch.zeros(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
         "q99": torch.ones(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
     },
-    "action": {
+    ACTION: {
         "mean": torch.zeros(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
         "std": torch.ones(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
         "q01": torch.zeros(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
@@ -88,6 +92,15 @@ DUMMY_DATASET_STATS = {
 }
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def cleanup_cuda_after_test():
+    yield
+    gc.collect()
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+        torch.cuda.ipc_collect()
+
+
 class PI05BaseOriginalConfig:
     action_dim: int = DUMMY_ACTION_DIM
     action_horizon: int = DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON
@@ -96,341 +109,163 @@ class PI05BaseOriginalConfig:
     precision: str = "float32"
     pi05: bool = True
     dtype: str = "float32"
+    pytorch_compile_mode: str | None = None
 
 
-def instantiate_lerobot_pi05(
-    from_pretrained: bool = False,
-) -> tuple[
-    PI05Policy,
-    PolicyProcessorPipeline[dict[str, Any], dict[str, Any]],
-    PolicyProcessorPipeline[PolicyAction, PolicyAction],
-]:
-    if from_pretrained:
-        # Load the policy first
-        policy = PI05Policy.from_pretrained(pretrained_name_or_path="lerobot/pi05_base", strict=True)
-    else:
-        config = PI05Config(max_action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM, max_state_dim=DUMMY_STATE_DIM, dtype="float32")
-        policy = PI05Policy(config)
+def instantiate_lerobot_pi05(*, compile_model: bool = False, gradient_checkpointing: bool = False):
+    config = PreTrainedConfig.from_pretrained("lerobot/pi05_base")
+    config.device = str(DEVICE)
+    config.dtype = "float32"
+    config.compile_model = compile_model
+    config.compile_mode = COMPILE_MODE
+    config.gradient_checkpointing = gradient_checkpointing
 
+    policy = PI05Policy.from_pretrained("lerobot/pi05_base", config=config, strict=True)
     policy.to(DEVICE)
-    policy.config.device = DEVICE
-    preprocessor, postprocessor = make_pi05_pre_post_processors(
-        config=policy.config, dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS
-    )
-    return (policy, preprocessor, postprocessor)
+    policy.config.device = str(DEVICE)
+    preprocessor, _ = make_pi05_pre_post_processors(config=policy.config, dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS)
+    return policy, preprocessor
 
 
-def instantiate_original_pi05(from_pretrained: bool = False, model_path: str | None = None):
-    config = PI05BaseOriginalConfig()
-    policy = PI0Pytorch(config)
+def instantiate_original_pi05():
+    policy = PI0Pytorch(PI05BaseOriginalConfig()).to(DEVICE)
 
-    if from_pretrained:
-        try:
-            print("Loading converted PyTorch weights from HuggingFace Hub (lerobot/pi05_base)...")
-
-            # Download the model from HuggingFace Hub
-            import safetensors.torch
-            from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
-
-            # Download the entire repository
-            if model_path and os.path.exists(model_path):
-                cache_dir = model_path
-                print(f"Using cached model from: {cache_dir}")
-            else:
-                cache_dir = snapshot_download(repo_id="lerobot/pi05_base", repo_type="model")
-                print(f"Downloaded model to: {cache_dir}")
-
-            # Try to load safetensors format first
-            model_file = os.path.join(cache_dir, "model.safetensors")
-            if os.path.exists(model_file):
-                state_dict = safetensors.torch.load_file(model_file)
-                print(f"Loaded {len(state_dict)} parameters from safetensors")
-            else:
-                raise FileNotFoundError(f"No safetensors file found in {cache_dir}")
-
-            # Load the state dict into the model
-            missing_keys, unexpected_keys = policy.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=False)
-
-            if missing_keys:
-                print(f"Missing keys: {len(missing_keys)}")
-                if len(missing_keys) <= 5:
-                    for key in missing_keys:
-                        print(f"    - {key}")
-                else:
-                    for key in missing_keys[:5]:
-                        print(f"    - {key}")
-                    print(f"    ... and {len(missing_keys) - 5} more")
-
-            if unexpected_keys:
-                print(f"Unexpected keys: {len(unexpected_keys)}")
-                if len(unexpected_keys) <= 5:
-                    for key in unexpected_keys:
-                        print(f"    - {key}")
-                else:
-                    for key in unexpected_keys[:5]:
-                        print(f"    - {key}")
-                    print(f"    ... and {len(unexpected_keys) - 5} more")
-
-            if not missing_keys and not unexpected_keys:
-                print("All pretrained weights loaded successfully!")
-            else:
-                print("Pretrained weights loaded with some missing/unexpected keys (this may be normal)")
-
-        except Exception as e:
-            print(f"Failed to load pretrained weights: {e}")
-            print("   Using randomly initialized weights...")
-            import traceback
-
-            traceback.print_exc()
-
-    policy.to(DEVICE)
+    # NOTE: `lerobot/pi05_base` 的 LeRobot loader 和 PI0 一样会在 strict load 前做 key
+    # 兼容转换，因此预期没有 missing_keys 或 unexpected_keys。vendored reference 则是裸
+    # `nn.Module`，需要在测试侧补齐 checkpoint 与模块命名之间的最小差异。
+    # NOTE: `lm_head.weight` 是 PaliGemma tied embedding 的保存名；LeRobot 的
+    # from_pretrained 会把它映射到内部 `embed_tokens.weight`，而 reference 模型没有这层
+    # loader，所以这里手动复用同一份 tensor，避免把权重别名差异误判成模型差异。
+    state_dict = fix_reference_state_dict(load_openpi_reference_state_dict("lerobot/pi05_base"))
+    missing_keys, unexpected_keys = policy.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=False)
+    assert missing_keys == []
+    assert unexpected_keys == []
     return policy
 
 
 def create_dummy_data():
-    batch_size = 2  # Reduce batch size for testing
-    device = DEVICE
-
-    # Use the exact same prompt for both implementations
+    batch_size = 2
     prompt = "Pick up the red block and place it in the bin"
-
-    batch = {
-        "observation.state": torch.randn(batch_size, DUMMY_STATE_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=device),
-        "action": torch.randn(
-            batch_size, DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON, DUMMY_ACTION_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+    return {
+        OBS_STATE: torch.randn(batch_size, DUMMY_STATE_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE),
+        ACTION: torch.randn(
+            batch_size, DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON, DUMMY_ACTION_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
         ),
-        # Create images in [0, 1] range as expected by LeRobot (will be converted to [-1, 1] internally)
         "observation.images.base_0_rgb": torch.rand(
-            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
         ),
         "observation.images.left_wrist_0_rgb": torch.rand(
-            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
         ),
         "observation.images.right_wrist_0_rgb": torch.rand(
-            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
         ),
-        # Add the task prompt for LeRobot - provide as list with single element to trigger expansion
         "task": [prompt for _ in range(batch_size)],
     }
-    return batch
 
 
-def extract_lerobot_processed_inputs(lerobot_pi0, batch):
-    """Extract the exact same processed inputs that LeRobot uses internally."""
-    # Get the tokenized language from LeRobot's internal method
-    lang_tokens, lang_masks = lerobot_pi0._tokenize_language(batch)
-
-    # Get the preprocessed images from LeRobot's internal method
-    images, img_masks = lerobot_pi0._preprocess_images(batch, train=False)
-
-    # Create dummy token_ar_mask and token_loss_mask for original implementation
-    token_ar_mask = torch.zeros_like(lang_tokens, dtype=torch.int32)
-    token_loss_mask = torch.ones_like(lang_masks, dtype=torch.bool)
-
-    return images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks, token_ar_mask, token_loss_mask
+def prepare_parity_inputs(lerobot_pi05, lerobot_preprocessor):
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    raw_batch = create_dummy_data()
+    lerobot_batch = lerobot_preprocessor(clone_batch(raw_batch))
+    openpi_observation = make_openpi_observation_from_raw(
+        raw_batch,
+        action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+        max_token_len=DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN,
+        dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS,
+        pi05=True,
+    )
+    openpi_actions = openpi_model_actions_from_raw(
+        raw_batch,
+        action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+        dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS,
+        pi05=True,
+    )
+    assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot(
+        lerobot_pi05,
+        lerobot_batch,
+        openpi_observation,
+        compare_state=False,
+    )
+    batch_size = raw_batch[OBS_STATE].shape[0]
+    noise = torch.randn(
+        batch_size,
+        DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON,
+        DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+        dtype=torch.float32,
+        device=DEVICE,
+    )
+    time = torch.linspace(0.2, 0.8, batch_size, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE)
+    return lerobot_batch, openpi_observation, openpi_actions, noise, time
 
 
-class PI05Observation:
-    """Observation class that matches the original OpenPI format."""
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        state,
-        images,
-        image_masks,
-        tokenized_prompt,
-        tokenized_prompt_mask,
-        token_ar_mask,
-        token_loss_mask,
-    ):
-        self.state = state
-        self.images = images
-        self.image_masks = image_masks
-        self.tokenized_prompt = tokenized_prompt
-        self.tokenized_prompt_mask = tokenized_prompt_mask
-        self.token_ar_mask = token_ar_mask
-        self.token_loss_mask = token_loss_mask
-
-
-def create_original_observation_with_openpi_preprocessing(batch):
-    """Create observation object for OpenPI using OpenPI's own preprocessing with pi05 state tokenizer."""
-    batch_size = batch["observation.state"].shape[0]
-    device = batch["observation.state"].device
-
-    # Create tokenizer for OpenPI (same as LeRobot uses)
-    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/paligemma-3b-pt-224")
-
-    # Get task description (pi05 processor handles all text formatting)
-    tasks = batch.get("task", ["Pick up the object"] * batch_size)
-    if isinstance(tasks, str):
-        tasks = [tasks] * batch_size
-    elif len(tasks) == 1:
-        tasks = tasks * batch_size
-
-    # Use pi05 state and input tokenizer logic (same as Pi05PrepareStateTokenizerProcessorStep)
-    state = batch["observation.state"]
-    state = deepcopy(state)
-
-    # Prepare state (pad to max_state_dim)
-    from lerobot.policies.pi05.modeling_pi05 import pad_vector
-
-    state = pad_vector(state, DUMMY_STATE_DIM)
-
-    # Normalize state to [-1, 1] range if needed (assuming it's already normalized from normalize_inputs)
-    # Discretize into 256 bins (see openpi `PaligemmaTokenizer.tokenize()`)
-    state_np = state.cpu().numpy()
-    discretized_states = np.digitize(state_np, bins=np.linspace(-1, 1, 256 + 1)[:-1]) - 1
-
-    # Create pi05-formatted prompts that include state information
-    full_prompts = []
-    for i, task in enumerate(tasks):
-        cleaned_text = task.strip().replace("_", " ").replace("\n", " ")
-        state_str = " ".join(map(str, discretized_states[i]))
-        full_prompt = f"Task: {cleaned_text}, State: {state_str};\nAction: "
-        full_prompts.append(full_prompt)
-
-    # Tokenize with max_length padding to match OpenPI's expected format
-    tokenized = tokenizer(
-        full_prompts,
-        padding="max_length",
-        padding_side="right",
-        truncation=True,
-        max_length=DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN,
-        return_tensors="pt",
+def assert_forward_matches(*, compile_model: bool = False, gradient_checkpointing: bool = False):
+    lerobot_pi05, lerobot_preprocessor = instantiate_lerobot_pi05(
+        compile_model=compile_model,
+        gradient_checkpointing=gradient_checkpointing,
+    )
+    original_pi05 = instantiate_original_pi05()
+    lerobot_batch, openpi_observation, openpi_actions, noise, time = prepare_parity_inputs(
+        lerobot_pi05,
+        lerobot_preprocessor,
     )
 
-    lang_tokens = tokenized["input_ids"].to(device)
-    lang_masks = tokenized["attention_mask"].to(device, dtype=torch.bool)
+    if gradient_checkpointing:
+        lerobot_pi05.train()
+    else:
+        lerobot_pi05.eval()
+    original_pi05.eval()
 
-    # Create dummy token_ar_mask and token_loss_mask for OpenPI
-    token_ar_mask = torch.zeros_like(lang_tokens, dtype=torch.int32)
-    token_loss_mask = torch.ones_like(lang_masks, dtype=torch.bool)
+    with fixed_flow_sampling(lerobot_pi05.model, noise=noise, time=time):
+        lerobot_loss, _ = lerobot_pi05(lerobot_batch, reduction="none")
+    with deterministic_openpi_forward_preprocess(original_pi05):
+        openpi_losses = original_pi05(openpi_observation, openpi_actions, noise=noise, time=time)
+    openpi_loss = openpi_losses.mean(dim=(1, 2))
 
-    # Convert LeRobot images format to OpenPI format (convert [0,1] to [-1,1] range)
-    image_dict = {
-        "base_0_rgb": batch["observation.images.base_0_rgb"] * 2.0 - 1.0,
-        "left_wrist_0_rgb": batch["observation.images.left_wrist_0_rgb"] * 2.0 - 1.0,
-        "right_wrist_0_rgb": batch["observation.images.right_wrist_0_rgb"] * 2.0 - 1.0,
-    }
+    torch.testing.assert_close(lerobot_loss, openpi_loss, rtol=FORWARD_RTOL, atol=FORWARD_ATOL)
 
-    # Create image masks (all ones for real images)
-    image_masks_dict = {}
-    for key in image_dict:
-        image_masks_dict[key] = torch.ones(batch_size, dtype=torch.bool, device=device)
 
-    # Create raw observation object (before preprocessing)
-    raw_observation = PI05Observation(
-        state=batch["observation.state"],
-        images=image_dict,
-        image_masks=image_masks_dict,
-        tokenized_prompt=lang_tokens,
-        tokenized_prompt_mask=lang_masks,
-        token_ar_mask=token_ar_mask,
-        token_loss_mask=token_loss_mask,
+def assert_sample_actions_match_openpi(*, compile_model: bool = False):
+    lerobot_pi05, lerobot_preprocessor = instantiate_lerobot_pi05(compile_model=compile_model)
+    original_pi05 = instantiate_original_pi05()
+    lerobot_batch, openpi_observation, _openpi_actions, noise, _time = prepare_parity_inputs(
+        lerobot_pi05,
+        lerobot_preprocessor,
     )
 
-    # Now use OpenPI's preprocessing
-    processed_obs = openpi_preprocessing.preprocess_observation_pytorch(raw_observation, train=False)
-
-    return processed_obs
-
-
-def create_original_observation_from_lerobot(lerobot_pi0, batch):
-    """Create observation object compatible with original OpenPI using the exact same inputs as LeRobot."""
-    _batch_size = batch["observation.state"].shape[0]
-    _device = batch["observation.state"].device
-
-    # Extract the exact same processed inputs that LeRobot uses
-    images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks, token_ar_mask, token_loss_mask = (
-        extract_lerobot_processed_inputs(lerobot_pi0, batch)
-    )
-
-    # Convert images list to dict with original OpenPI keys
-    image_dict = {
-        "base_0_rgb": images[0],
-        "left_wrist_0_rgb": images[1],
-        "right_wrist_0_rgb": images[2],
-    }
-
-    # Convert image masks list to dict with original OpenPI keys
-    image_masks_dict = {
-        "base_0_rgb": img_masks[0],
-        "left_wrist_0_rgb": img_masks[1],
-        "right_wrist_0_rgb": img_masks[2],
-    }
-
-    return PI05Observation(
-        state=batch["observation.state"],
-        images=image_dict,
-        image_masks=image_masks_dict,
-        tokenized_prompt=lang_tokens,
-        tokenized_prompt_mask=lang_masks,
-        token_ar_mask=token_ar_mask,
-        token_loss_mask=token_loss_mask,
-    )
-
-
-def test_pi05_original_vs_lerobot():
-    """Test PI05 original implementation vs LeRobot implementation."""
-    print("Initializing models...")
-    lerobot_pi05, lerobot_preprocessor, lerobot_postprocessor = instantiate_lerobot_pi05(
-        from_pretrained=True
-    )  # Load pretrained LeRobot model
-    original_pi0 = instantiate_original_pi05(
-        from_pretrained=True
-    )  # Load pretrained OpenPI model from HuggingFace Hub
-
-    print("Creating dummy data...")
-    batch = create_dummy_data()
-    batch_lerobot = deepcopy(batch)
-
-    # Test each model with its own preprocessing (more realistic end-to-end test)
-    print("\nTest each model with its own preprocessing")
-    print("Creating observation for OpenPI using OpenPI's own preprocessing...")
-    pi0_obs_openpi = create_original_observation_with_openpi_preprocessing(batch)
-
-    print(f"Task prompt: '{batch['task'][0]}'")
-    print(f"OpenPI tokenized prompt shape: {pi0_obs_openpi.tokenized_prompt.shape}")
-    print(f"OpenPI image shapes: {[img.shape for img in pi0_obs_openpi.images.values()]}")
-    print(f"OpenPI state shape: {pi0_obs_openpi.state.shape}")
-
-    print("Testing OpenPI with own preprocessing...")
-    original_pi0.eval()
-    torch.manual_seed(42)  # Set seed for reproducibility
-    batch_size = batch["observation.state"].shape[0]
-    noise_shape = (batch_size, DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON, DUMMY_ACTION_DIM)
-    fixed_noise = torch.randn(noise_shape, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE)
-
-    with torch.no_grad():
-        openpi_actions = original_pi0.sample_actions(
-            device=DEVICE, observation=pi0_obs_openpi, noise=fixed_noise, num_steps=10
-        )
-        openpi_actions_unit = openpi_actions[:, 0, :]
-    print(f"OpenPI (own preprocessing) Actions shape: {openpi_actions.shape}")
-    print(f"OpenPI (own preprocessing) Actions unit shape: {openpi_actions_unit.shape}")
-    print(f"OpenPI (own preprocessing) Actions mean: {openpi_actions.mean().item():.6f}")
-    print(f"OpenPI (own preprocessing) Actions std: {openpi_actions.std().item():.6f}")
-
-    print("Testing LeRobot with own preprocessing...")
     lerobot_pi05.eval()
-    torch.manual_seed(42)  # Set the same seed
-
-    batch_lerobot_processed = lerobot_preprocessor(batch_lerobot)
+    original_pi05.eval()
     with torch.no_grad():
-        lerobot_actions_own = lerobot_pi05.predict_action_chunk(
-            batch_lerobot_processed
-        )  # batch_size, n_action_steps, action_dim
-        lerobot_actions_unit = lerobot_actions_own[:, 0, :]
-    print(f"LeRobot (own preprocessing) Actions shape: {lerobot_actions_own.shape}")
-    print(f"LeRobot (own preprocessing) Actions unit shape: {lerobot_actions_unit.shape}")
-    print(f"LeRobot (own preprocessing) Actions mean: {lerobot_actions_own.mean().item():.6f}")
-    print(f"LeRobot (own preprocessing) Actions std: {lerobot_actions_own.std().item():.6f}")
+        lerobot_actions = lerobot_pi05.predict_action_chunk(lerobot_batch, noise=noise, num_steps=10)
+        openpi_actions = original_pi05.sample_actions(
+            device=DEVICE,
+            observation=openpi_observation,
+            noise=noise,
+            num_steps=10,
+        )
 
-    print("\nComparing end-to-end implementations:")
-    print(f"Actions close (atol=1e-4): {torch.allclose(lerobot_actions_own, openpi_actions, atol=1e-4)}")
-    print(f"Actions close (atol=1e-2): {torch.allclose(lerobot_actions_own, openpi_actions, atol=1e-2)}")
-    print(f"Max absolute difference: {torch.abs(lerobot_actions_own - openpi_actions).max().item():.6f}")
+    torch.testing.assert_close(lerobot_actions, openpi_actions, rtol=SAMPLE_RTOL, atol=SAMPLE_ATOL)
 
-    assert torch.allclose(lerobot_actions_own, openpi_actions, atol=1e-4)
-    assert torch.allclose(lerobot_actions_own, openpi_actions, atol=1e-2)
-    assert torch.abs(lerobot_actions_own - openpi_actions).max().item() < 1e-4
+
+def test_pi05_forward_matches_openpi():
+    assert_forward_matches()
+
+
+def test_pi05_sample_actions_match_openpi():
+    assert_sample_actions_match_openpi()
+
+
+def test_pi05_gradient_checkpointing_forward_matches_openpi():
+    assert_forward_matches(gradient_checkpointing=True)
+
+
+def test_pi05_compile_forward_matches_openpi():
+    assert_forward_matches(compile_model=True)
+
+
+def test_pi05_compile_sample_actions_match_openpi():
+    assert_sample_actions_match_openpi(compile_model=True)
+
+
+def test_pi05_compile_gradient_checkpointing_forward_matches_openpi():
+    assert_forward_matches(compile_model=True, gradient_checkpointing=True)

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/test_pi0_compile.py

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+pytest.importorskip("transformers")
+
+from lerobot.policies.pi0 import PI0Config  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi0.modeling_pi0 import PI0Pytorch  # noqa: E402
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.utils.torch_compile import (  # noqa: E402
+    assert_cache_stability,
+    assert_compiled_output_matches_eager,
+    assert_explain_has_no_graph_breaks,
+    benchmark_runtime,
+    make_compile_config,
+    reset_compile_state,
+)
+from tests.utils import require_cuda  # noqa: E402
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    os.environ.get("CI") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true",
+    reason="torch.compile benchmark is too slow for CI; run manually on GPU nodes",
+)
+
+
+def _make_model(*, compile_model):
+    return PI0Pytorch(make_compile_config(PI0Config, compile_model=compile_model)).cuda().eval()
+
+
+def _make_dummy_inputs(config):
+    device = torch.device("cuda")
+    common = {
+        "images": [torch.randn(1, 3, *config.image_resolution, device=device)],
+        "img_masks": [torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.bool, device=device)],
+        "lang_tokens": torch.randint(0, 1024, (1, 5), dtype=torch.long, device=device),
+        "lang_masks": torch.ones(1, 5, dtype=torch.bool, device=device),
+        "state": torch.randn(1, config.max_state_dim, device=device),
+    }
+    forward_kwargs = {
+        **common,
+        "actions": torch.randn(1, config.chunk_size, config.max_action_dim, device=device),
+        "noise": torch.randn(1, config.chunk_size, config.max_action_dim, device=device),
+        "time": torch.rand(1, device=device),
+    }
+    sample_kwargs = {
+        **common,
+        "noise": torch.randn(1, config.chunk_size, config.max_action_dim, device=device),
+        "num_steps": config.num_inference_steps,
+    }
+    return forward_kwargs, sample_kwargs
+
+
+@require_cuda
+def test_pi0_torch_compile_forward_and_sample_actions():
+    if not hasattr(torch, "compile"):
+        pytest.skip("torch.compile is not available")
+    if not torch._dynamo.is_dynamo_supported():
+        pytest.skip("torch._dynamo is not supported on this platform")
+
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    eager_model = _make_model(compile_model=False)
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    compiled_model = _make_model(compile_model=True)
+    forward_kwargs, sample_kwargs = _make_dummy_inputs(compiled_model.config)
+
+    try:
+        assert_compiled_output_matches_eager(eager_model, compiled_model, forward_kwargs, sample_kwargs)
+
+        assert_explain_has_no_graph_breaks(eager_model.forward, forward_kwargs, "pi0.forward")
+        assert_explain_has_no_graph_breaks(eager_model.sample_actions, sample_kwargs, "pi0.sample_actions")
+
+        assert_cache_stability(compiled_model.forward, forward_kwargs, "pi0.forward")
+        assert_cache_stability(compiled_model.sample_actions, sample_kwargs, "pi0.sample_actions")
+
+        benchmark_runtime(eager_model.forward, compiled_model.forward, forward_kwargs, "pi0.forward")
+        benchmark_runtime(
+            eager_model.sample_actions, compiled_model.sample_actions, sample_kwargs, "pi0.sample_actions"
+        )
+    finally:
+        reset_compile_state()
+        del eager_model
+        del compiled_model
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/test_pi0_original_vs_lerobot.py

@@ -14,51 +14,56 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-"""Test script to verify PI0 policy integration with LeRobot vs the original implementation"""
+"""Compare LeRobot PI0 against the vendored OpenPI PyTorch reference."""
 
+import gc
 import os
-from copy import deepcopy
-from typing import Any
 
 import pytest
 import torch
 
-# Skip if openpi or transformers is not available
-pytest.importorskip("openpi")
 pytest.importorskip("transformers")
 
-# Skip this entire module in CI
-pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
-    os.environ.get("CI") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true",
-    reason="This test requires local OpenPI installation and is not meant for CI",
+from lerobot.configs import PreTrainedConfig  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi0 import PI0Policy  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi0.processor_pi0 import make_pi0_pre_post_processors  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.utils.constants import ACTION, OBS_STATE  # noqa: E402
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.openpi_pytorch.pi0_pytorch import PI0Pytorch  # noqa: E402
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.utils.openpi_parity import (  # noqa: E402
+    assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot,
+    clone_batch,
+    deterministic_openpi_forward_preprocess,
+    fix_reference_state_dict,
+    fixed_flow_sampling,
+    load_openpi_reference_state_dict,
+    make_openpi_observation_from_raw,
+    openpi_model_actions_from_raw,
 )
 
-from openpi.models_pytorch import preprocessing_pytorch as openpi_preprocessing  # noqa: E402
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    os.environ.get("CI") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true",
+    reason="OpenPI parity and torch.compile checks are too slow for CI; run manually on GPU nodes",
+)
 
-# NOTE: Assumes PYTHONPATH is set to include OpenPI src as per instructions.
-from openpi.models_pytorch.pi0_pytorch import PI0Pytorch  # noqa: E402
-from transformers import AutoTokenizer  # noqa: E402
-
-from lerobot.policies.pi0 import PI0Config, PI0Policy  # noqa: E402
-from lerobot.policies.pi0.processor_pi0 import make_pi0_pre_post_processors  # noqa: E402
-from lerobot.processor import PolicyProcessorPipeline  # noqa: E402
-from lerobot.types import PolicyAction  # noqa: E402
-
-# TODO: ADDING DEFAULT IMAGES_FEATURES TO CONFIG
 DUMMY_ACTION_DIM = 32
 DUMMY_STATE_DIM = 32
 DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON = 50
-DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN = 48  # Default for PI0 (non-pi05)
-DEVICE = "cpu"  # Use CPU to avoid memory issues for testing
+DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN = 48
+DEVICE = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+COMPILE_MODE = "default"
+FORWARD_RTOL = 1e-4
+FORWARD_ATOL = 1e-4
+SAMPLE_RTOL = 1e-2
+SAMPLE_ATOL = 5e-3
 
 DUMMY_DATASET_STATS = {
-    "observation.state": {
+    OBS_STATE: {
         "mean": torch.zeros(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
         "std": torch.ones(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
         "q01": torch.zeros(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
         "q99": torch.ones(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
     },
-    "action": {
+    ACTION: {
         "mean": torch.zeros(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
         "std": torch.ones(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
         "q01": torch.zeros(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
@@ -87,6 +92,15 @@ DUMMY_DATASET_STATS = {
 }
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def cleanup_cuda_after_test():
+    yield
+    gc.collect()
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+        torch.cuda.ipc_collect()
+
+
 class PI0BaseOriginalConfig:
     action_dim: int = DUMMY_ACTION_DIM
     action_horizon: int = DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON
@@ -95,333 +109,156 @@ class PI0BaseOriginalConfig:
     precision: str = "float32"
     pi05: bool = False
     dtype: str = "float32"
+    pytorch_compile_mode: str | None = None
 
 
-def instantiate_lerobot_pi0(
-    from_pretrained: bool = False,
-) -> tuple[
-    PI0Policy,
-    PolicyProcessorPipeline[dict[str, Any], dict[str, Any]],
-    PolicyProcessorPipeline[PolicyAction, PolicyAction],
-]:
-    if from_pretrained:
-        # Load the policy first
-        policy = PI0Policy.from_pretrained(pretrained_name_or_path="lerobot/pi0_base", strict=True)
-    else:
-        config = PI0Config(max_action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM, max_state_dim=DUMMY_STATE_DIM, dtype="float32")
-        policy = PI0Policy(config)
+def instantiate_lerobot_pi0(*, compile_model: bool = False, gradient_checkpointing: bool = False):
+    config = PreTrainedConfig.from_pretrained("lerobot/pi0_base")
+    config.device = str(DEVICE)
+    config.dtype = "float32"
+    config.compile_model = compile_model
+    config.compile_mode = COMPILE_MODE
+    config.gradient_checkpointing = gradient_checkpointing
 
+    policy = PI0Policy.from_pretrained("lerobot/pi0_base", config=config, strict=True)
     policy.to(DEVICE)
-    policy.config.device = DEVICE
-    preprocessor, postprocessor = make_pi0_pre_post_processors(
-        config=policy.config, dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS
-    )
-    return (policy, preprocessor, postprocessor)
+    policy.config.device = str(DEVICE)
+    preprocessor, _ = make_pi0_pre_post_processors(config=policy.config, dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS)
+    return policy, preprocessor
 
 
-def instantiate_original_pi0(from_pretrained: bool = False, model_path: str = None):
-    config = PI0BaseOriginalConfig()
-    policy = PI0Pytorch(config)
-
-    if from_pretrained:
-        try:
-            print("Loading converted PyTorch weights from HuggingFace Hub (lerobot/pi0_base)...")
-
-            # Download the model from HuggingFace Hub
-            import safetensors.torch
-            from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
-
-            # Download the entire repository
-            if model_path and os.path.exists(model_path):
-                cache_dir = model_path
-                print(f"Using cached model from: {cache_dir}")
-            else:
-                cache_dir = snapshot_download(repo_id="lerobot/pi0_base", repo_type="model")
-                print(f"Downloaded model to: {cache_dir}")
-
-            # Try to load safetensors format first
-            model_file = os.path.join(cache_dir, "model.safetensors")
-            if os.path.exists(model_file):
-                state_dict = safetensors.torch.load_file(model_file)
-                print(f"Loaded {len(state_dict)} parameters from safetensors")
-            else:
-                raise FileNotFoundError(f"No safetensors file found in {cache_dir}")
-
-            # Load the state dict into the model
-            missing_keys, unexpected_keys = policy.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=False)
-
-            if missing_keys:
-                print(f"Missing keys: {len(missing_keys)}")
-                if len(missing_keys) <= 5:
-                    for key in missing_keys:
-                        print(f"    - {key}")
-                else:
-                    for key in missing_keys[:5]:
-                        print(f"    - {key}")
-                    print(f"    ... and {len(missing_keys) - 5} more")
-
-            if unexpected_keys:
-                print(f"Unexpected keys: {len(unexpected_keys)}")
-                if len(unexpected_keys) <= 5:
-                    for key in unexpected_keys:
-                        print(f"    - {key}")
-                else:
-                    for key in unexpected_keys[:5]:
-                        print(f"    - {key}")
-                    print(f"    ... and {len(unexpected_keys) - 5} more")
-
-            if not missing_keys and not unexpected_keys:
-                print("All pretrained weights loaded successfully!")
-            else:
-                print("Pretrained weights loaded with some missing/unexpected keys (this may be normal)")
-
-        except Exception as e:
-            print(f"Failed to load pretrained weights: {e}")
-            print("   Using randomly initialized weights...")
-            import traceback
-
-            traceback.print_exc()
-
-    policy.to(DEVICE)
+def instantiate_original_pi0():
+    policy = PI0Pytorch(PI0BaseOriginalConfig()).to(DEVICE)
+    state_dict = fix_reference_state_dict(load_openpi_reference_state_dict("lerobot/pi0_base"))
+    missing_keys, unexpected_keys = policy.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=False)
+    assert missing_keys == []
+    assert unexpected_keys == []
     return policy
 
 
 def create_dummy_data():
-    batch_size = 2  # Reduce batch size for testing
-    device = DEVICE
-
-    # Use the exact same prompt for both implementations
+    batch_size = 2
     prompt = "Pick up the red block and place it in the bin"
-
-    batch = {
-        "observation.state": torch.randn(batch_size, DUMMY_STATE_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=device),
-        "action": torch.randn(
-            batch_size, DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON, DUMMY_ACTION_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+    return {
+        OBS_STATE: torch.randn(batch_size, DUMMY_STATE_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE),
+        ACTION: torch.randn(
+            batch_size, DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON, DUMMY_ACTION_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
         ),
-        # Create images in [0, 1] range as expected by LeRobot (will be converted to [-1, 1] internally)
         "observation.images.base_0_rgb": torch.rand(
-            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
         ),
         "observation.images.left_wrist_0_rgb": torch.rand(
-            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
         ),
         "observation.images.right_wrist_0_rgb": torch.rand(
-            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
         ),
-        # Add the task prompt for LeRobot - provide as list with single element to trigger expansion
         "task": [prompt for _ in range(batch_size)],
     }
-    return batch
 
 
-def extract_lerobot_processed_inputs(lerobot_pi0, batch):
-    """Extract the exact same processed inputs that LeRobot uses internally."""
-    # Get the tokenized language from LeRobot's internal method
-    lang_tokens, lang_masks = lerobot_pi0._tokenize_language(batch)
-
-    # Get the preprocessed images from LeRobot's internal method
-    images, img_masks = lerobot_pi0._preprocess_images(batch, train=False)
-
-    # Create dummy token_ar_mask and token_loss_mask for original implementation
-    token_ar_mask = torch.zeros_like(lang_tokens, dtype=torch.int32)
-    token_loss_mask = torch.ones_like(lang_masks, dtype=torch.bool)
-
-    return images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks, token_ar_mask, token_loss_mask
+def prepare_parity_inputs(lerobot_pi0, lerobot_preprocessor):
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    raw_batch = create_dummy_data()
+    lerobot_batch = lerobot_preprocessor(clone_batch(raw_batch))
+    openpi_observation = make_openpi_observation_from_raw(
+        raw_batch,
+        action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+        max_token_len=DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN,
+        dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS,
+        pi05=False,
+    )
+    openpi_actions = openpi_model_actions_from_raw(
+        raw_batch,
+        action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+        dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS,
+        pi05=False,
+    )
+    assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot(
+        lerobot_pi0,
+        lerobot_batch,
+        openpi_observation,
+        compare_state=True,
+    )
+    batch_size = raw_batch[OBS_STATE].shape[0]
+    noise = torch.randn(
+        batch_size,
+        DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON,
+        DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+        dtype=torch.float32,
+        device=DEVICE,
+    )
+    time = torch.linspace(0.2, 0.8, batch_size, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE)
+    return lerobot_batch, openpi_observation, openpi_actions, noise, time
 
 
-class PI0Observation:
-    """Observation class that matches the original OpenPI format."""
+def assert_forward_matches(*, compile_model: bool = False, gradient_checkpointing: bool = False):
+    lerobot_pi0, lerobot_preprocessor = instantiate_lerobot_pi0(
+        compile_model=compile_model,
+        gradient_checkpointing=gradient_checkpointing,
+    )
+    original_pi0 = instantiate_original_pi0()
+    lerobot_batch, openpi_observation, openpi_actions, noise, time = prepare_parity_inputs(
+        lerobot_pi0,
+        lerobot_preprocessor,
+    )
 
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        state,
-        images,
-        image_masks,
-        tokenized_prompt,
-        tokenized_prompt_mask,
-        token_ar_mask,
-        token_loss_mask,
-    ):
-        self.state = state
-        self.images = images
-        self.image_masks = image_masks
-        self.tokenized_prompt = tokenized_prompt
-        self.tokenized_prompt_mask = tokenized_prompt_mask
-        self.token_ar_mask = token_ar_mask
-        self.token_loss_mask = token_loss_mask
-
-
-def create_original_observation_with_openpi_preprocessing(batch):
-    """Create observation object for OpenPI using OpenPI's own preprocessing."""
-    batch_size = batch["observation.state"].shape[0]
-    device = batch["observation.state"].device
-
-    # Create tokenizer for OpenPI (same as LeRobot uses)
-    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/paligemma-3b-pt-224")
-
-    # Get task description
-    if "task" in batch:
-        tasks = batch["task"]
-        if isinstance(tasks, str):
-            # Single string: add newline if not present, then convert to list
-            if not tasks.endswith("\n"):
-                tasks = f"{tasks}\n"
-            tasks = [tasks]
-        elif isinstance(tasks, list) and all(isinstance(t, str) for t in tasks):
-            # List of strings: add newline to each if not present
-            tasks = [t if t.endswith("\n") else f"{t}\n" for t in tasks]
-            if len(tasks) == 1:
-                # Expand to batch size
-                tasks = tasks * batch_size
-                if len(tasks) != batch_size:
-                    raise ValueError(f"Expected batch size {batch_size}, got {len(tasks)}")
-        # If task is neither string nor list of strings, leave unchanged
+    if gradient_checkpointing:
+        lerobot_pi0.train()
     else:
-        # Default task if not provided
-        tasks = ["Pick up the object\n"] * batch_size
-
-    # Tokenize with max_length padding to match OpenPI's expected format
-    tokenized = tokenizer(
-        tasks,
-        padding="max_length",
-        padding_side="right",
-        truncation=True,
-        max_length=DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN,
-        return_tensors="pt",
-    )
-
-    lang_tokens = tokenized["input_ids"].to(device)
-    lang_masks = tokenized["attention_mask"].to(device, dtype=torch.bool)
-
-    # Create dummy token_ar_mask and token_loss_mask for OpenPI
-    token_ar_mask = torch.zeros_like(lang_tokens, dtype=torch.int32)
-    token_loss_mask = torch.ones_like(lang_masks, dtype=torch.bool)
-
-    # Convert LeRobot images format to OpenPI format (convert [0,1] to [-1,1] range)
-    image_dict = {
-        "base_0_rgb": batch["observation.images.base_0_rgb"] * 2.0 - 1.0,
-        "left_wrist_0_rgb": batch["observation.images.left_wrist_0_rgb"] * 2.0 - 1.0,
-        "right_wrist_0_rgb": batch["observation.images.right_wrist_0_rgb"] * 2.0 - 1.0,
-    }
-
-    # Create image masks (all ones for real images)
-    image_masks_dict = {}
-    for key in image_dict:
-        image_masks_dict[key] = torch.ones(batch_size, dtype=torch.bool, device=device)
-
-    # Create raw observation object (before preprocessing)
-    raw_observation = PI0Observation(
-        state=batch["observation.state"],
-        images=image_dict,
-        image_masks=image_masks_dict,
-        tokenized_prompt=lang_tokens,
-        tokenized_prompt_mask=lang_masks,
-        token_ar_mask=token_ar_mask,
-        token_loss_mask=token_loss_mask,
-    )
-
-    # Now use OpenPI's preprocessing
-    processed_obs = openpi_preprocessing.preprocess_observation_pytorch(raw_observation, train=False)
-
-    return processed_obs
-
-
-def create_original_observation_from_lerobot(lerobot_pi0, batch):
-    """Create observation object compatible with original OpenPI using the exact same inputs as LeRobot."""
-    _batch_size = batch["observation.state"].shape[0]
-    _device = batch["observation.state"].device
-
-    # Extract the exact same processed inputs that LeRobot uses
-    images, img_masks, lang_tokens, lang_masks, token_ar_mask, token_loss_mask = (
-        extract_lerobot_processed_inputs(lerobot_pi0, batch)
-    )
-
-    # Convert images list to dict with original OpenPI keys
-    image_dict = {
-        "base_0_rgb": images[0],
-        "left_wrist_0_rgb": images[1],
-        "right_wrist_0_rgb": images[2],
-    }
-
-    # Convert image masks list to dict with original OpenPI keys
-    image_masks_dict = {
-        "base_0_rgb": img_masks[0],
-        "left_wrist_0_rgb": img_masks[1],
-        "right_wrist_0_rgb": img_masks[2],
-    }
-
-    return PI0Observation(
-        state=batch["observation.state"],
-        images=image_dict,
-        image_masks=image_masks_dict,
-        tokenized_prompt=lang_tokens,
-        tokenized_prompt_mask=lang_masks,
-        token_ar_mask=token_ar_mask,
-        token_loss_mask=token_loss_mask,
-    )
-
-
-def test_pi0_original_vs_lerobot():
-    """Test PI0 original implementation vs LeRobot implementation."""
-    print("Initializing models...")
-    lerobot_pi0, lerobot_preprocessor, lerobot_postprocessor = instantiate_lerobot_pi0(
-        from_pretrained=True
-    )  # Load pretrained LeRobot model
-    original_pi0 = instantiate_original_pi0(
-        from_pretrained=True
-    )  # Load pretrained OpenPI model from HuggingFace Hub
-
-    print("Creating dummy data...")
-    batch = create_dummy_data()
-    batch_lerobot = deepcopy(batch)
-
-    # Test each model with its own preprocessing (more realistic end-to-end test)
-    print("\nTest each model with its own preprocessing")
-    print("Creating observation for OpenPI using OpenPI's own preprocessing...")
-    pi0_obs_openpi = create_original_observation_with_openpi_preprocessing(batch)
-
-    print(f"Task prompt: '{batch['task'][0]}'")
-    print(f"OpenPI tokenized prompt shape: {pi0_obs_openpi.tokenized_prompt.shape}")
-    print(f"OpenPI image shapes: {[img.shape for img in pi0_obs_openpi.images.values()]}")
-    print(f"OpenPI state shape: {pi0_obs_openpi.state.shape}")
-
-    print("Testing OpenPI with own preprocessing...")
+        lerobot_pi0.eval()
     original_pi0.eval()
-    torch.manual_seed(42)  # Set seed for reproducibility
-    batch_size = batch["observation.state"].shape[0]
-    noise_shape = (batch_size, DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON, DUMMY_ACTION_DIM)
-    fixed_noise = torch.randn(noise_shape, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE)
 
-    with torch.no_grad():
-        openpi_actions = original_pi0.sample_actions(
-            device=DEVICE, observation=pi0_obs_openpi, noise=fixed_noise, num_steps=10
-        )
-        openpi_actions_unit = openpi_actions[:, 0, :]
-    print(f"OpenPI (own preprocessing) Actions shape: {openpi_actions.shape}")
-    print(f"OpenPI (own preprocessing) Actions unit shape: {openpi_actions_unit.shape}")
-    print(f"OpenPI (own preprocessing) Actions mean: {openpi_actions.mean().item():.6f}")
-    print(f"OpenPI (own preprocessing) Actions std: {openpi_actions.std().item():.6f}")
+    with fixed_flow_sampling(lerobot_pi0.model, noise=noise, time=time):
+        lerobot_loss, _ = lerobot_pi0(lerobot_batch, reduction="none")
+    with deterministic_openpi_forward_preprocess(original_pi0):
+        openpi_losses = original_pi0(openpi_observation, openpi_actions, noise=noise, time=time)
+    openpi_loss = openpi_losses.mean(dim=(1, 2))
+
+    torch.testing.assert_close(lerobot_loss, openpi_loss, rtol=FORWARD_RTOL, atol=FORWARD_ATOL)
+
+
+def assert_sample_actions_match_openpi(*, compile_model: bool = False):
+    lerobot_pi0, lerobot_preprocessor = instantiate_lerobot_pi0(compile_model=compile_model)
+    original_pi0 = instantiate_original_pi0()
+    lerobot_batch, openpi_observation, _openpi_actions, noise, _time = prepare_parity_inputs(
+        lerobot_pi0,
+        lerobot_preprocessor,
+    )
 
-    print("Testing LeRobot with own preprocessing...")
     lerobot_pi0.eval()
-    torch.manual_seed(42)  # Set the same seed
-
-    batch_lerobot_processed = lerobot_preprocessor(batch_lerobot)
+    original_pi0.eval()
     with torch.no_grad():
-        lerobot_actions_own = lerobot_pi0.predict_action_chunk(
-            batch_lerobot_processed
-        )  # batch_size, n_action_steps, action_dim
-        lerobot_actions_unit = lerobot_actions_own[:, 0, :]
-    print(f"LeRobot (own preprocessing) Actions shape: {lerobot_actions_own.shape}")
-    print(f"LeRobot (own preprocessing) Actions unit shape: {lerobot_actions_unit.shape}")
-    print(f"LeRobot (own preprocessing) Actions mean: {lerobot_actions_own.mean().item():.6f}")
-    print(f"LeRobot (own preprocessing) Actions std: {lerobot_actions_own.std().item():.6f}")
+        lerobot_actions = lerobot_pi0.predict_action_chunk(lerobot_batch, noise=noise, num_steps=10)
+        openpi_actions = original_pi0.sample_actions(
+            device=DEVICE,
+            observation=openpi_observation,
+            noise=noise,
+            num_steps=10,
+        )
 
-    print("\nComparing end-to-end implementations:")
-    print(f"Actions close (atol=1e-4): {torch.allclose(lerobot_actions_own, openpi_actions, atol=1e-4)}")
-    print(f"Actions close (atol=1e-2): {torch.allclose(lerobot_actions_own, openpi_actions, atol=1e-2)}")
-    print(f"Max absolute difference: {torch.abs(lerobot_actions_own - openpi_actions).max().item():.6f}")
+    torch.testing.assert_close(lerobot_actions, openpi_actions, rtol=SAMPLE_RTOL, atol=SAMPLE_ATOL)
 
-    assert torch.allclose(lerobot_actions_own, openpi_actions, atol=1e-4)
-    assert torch.allclose(lerobot_actions_own, openpi_actions, atol=1e-2)
-    assert torch.abs(lerobot_actions_own - openpi_actions).max().item() < 1e-4
+
+def test_pi0_forward_matches_openpi():
+    assert_forward_matches()
+
+
+def test_pi0_sample_actions_match_openpi():
+    assert_sample_actions_match_openpi()
+
+
+def test_pi0_gradient_checkpointing_forward_matches_openpi():
+    assert_forward_matches(gradient_checkpointing=True)
+
+
+def test_pi0_compile_forward_matches_openpi():
+    assert_forward_matches(compile_model=True)
+
+
+def test_pi0_compile_sample_actions_match_openpi():
+    assert_sample_actions_match_openpi(compile_model=True)
+
+
+def test_pi0_compile_gradient_checkpointing_forward_matches_openpi():
+    assert_forward_matches(compile_model=True, gradient_checkpointing=True)

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/utils/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"""Utilities shared by PI0/PI05 policy tests."""

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/utils/openpi_parity.py

@@ -0,0 +1,291 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from collections.abc import Iterator
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from functools import lru_cache
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+import safetensors.torch
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F  # noqa: N812
+from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+from lerobot.utils.constants import (
+    ACTION,
+    OBS_LANGUAGE_ATTENTION_MASK,
+    OBS_LANGUAGE_TOKENS,
+    OBS_STATE,
+)
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.openpi_pytorch import preprocessing_pytorch as openpi_preprocessing
+
+IMAGE_KEYS = ("base_0_rgb", "left_wrist_0_rgb", "right_wrist_0_rgb")
+TOKENIZER_NAME = "google/paligemma-3b-pt-224"
+
+
+@dataclass
+class OpenPIObservation:
+    state: torch.Tensor
+    images: dict[str, torch.Tensor]
+    image_masks: dict[str, torch.Tensor]
+    tokenized_prompt: torch.Tensor
+    tokenized_prompt_mask: torch.Tensor
+    token_ar_mask: torch.Tensor
+    token_loss_mask: torch.Tensor
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=1)
+def paligemma_tokenizer():
+    return AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(TOKENIZER_NAME)
+
+
+def clone_batch(batch: dict) -> dict:
+    return {
+        key: value.clone() if isinstance(value, torch.Tensor) else list(value) for key, value in batch.items()
+    }
+
+
+def pad_last_dim(tensor: torch.Tensor, target_dim: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    if tensor.shape[-1] > target_dim:
+        raise ValueError(f"Cannot pad last dimension {tensor.shape[-1]} down to {target_dim}")
+    return F.pad(tensor, (0, target_dim - tensor.shape[-1]))
+
+
+def mean_std_normalize(tensor: torch.Tensor, stats: dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+    mean = stats["mean"].to(device=tensor.device, dtype=tensor.dtype)
+    std = stats["std"].to(device=tensor.device, dtype=tensor.dtype)
+    return (tensor - mean) / (std + 1e-8)
+
+
+def quantile_normalize(tensor: torch.Tensor, stats: dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+    q01 = stats["q01"].to(device=tensor.device, dtype=tensor.dtype)
+    q99 = stats["q99"].to(device=tensor.device, dtype=tensor.dtype)
+    denom = torch.where(q99 == q01, torch.full_like(q99, 1e-8), q99 - q01)
+    return 2.0 * (tensor - q01) / denom - 1.0
+
+
+def openpi_model_state_from_raw(
+    batch: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+    *,
+    action_dim: int,
+    dataset_stats: dict[str, dict[str, torch.Tensor]],
+    pi05: bool,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    state = batch[OBS_STATE].to(dtype=torch.float32)
+    if pi05:
+        state = quantile_normalize(state, dataset_stats[OBS_STATE])
+    else:
+        state = mean_std_normalize(state, dataset_stats[OBS_STATE])
+    return pad_last_dim(state, action_dim)
+
+
+def openpi_model_actions_from_raw(
+    batch: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+    *,
+    action_dim: int,
+    dataset_stats: dict[str, dict[str, torch.Tensor]],
+    pi05: bool,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    actions = batch[ACTION].to(dtype=torch.float32)
+    if pi05:
+        actions = quantile_normalize(actions, dataset_stats[ACTION])
+    else:
+        actions = mean_std_normalize(actions, dataset_stats[ACTION])
+    return pad_last_dim(actions, action_dim)
+
+
+def _tasks_from_raw(batch: dict, batch_size: int) -> list[str]:
+    tasks = batch.get("task")
+    if tasks is None:
+        raise ValueError("The parity batch must include a task prompt.")
+    if isinstance(tasks, str):
+        return [tasks] * batch_size
+    if len(tasks) == 1:
+        return [tasks[0]] * batch_size
+    if len(tasks) != batch_size:
+        raise ValueError(f"Expected {batch_size} task prompts, got {len(tasks)}")
+    return list(tasks)
+
+
+def _format_pi0_prompts(tasks: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    return [f"{task.strip().replace('_', ' ').replace(chr(10), ' ')}\n" for task in tasks]
+
+
+def _format_pi05_prompts(tasks: list[str], normalized_state: torch.Tensor) -> list[str]:
+    state_np = normalized_state.detach().cpu().numpy()
+    discretized_states = np.digitize(state_np, bins=np.linspace(-1, 1, 256 + 1)[:-1]) - 1
+    prompts = []
+    for task, state in zip(tasks, discretized_states, strict=True):
+        cleaned_text = task.strip().replace("_", " ").replace("\n", " ")
+        state_str = " ".join(map(str, state))
+        prompts.append(f"Task: {cleaned_text}, State: {state_str};\nAction: ")
+    return prompts
+
+
+def _tokenize_prompts(prompts: list[str], *, max_token_len: int, device: torch.device | str):
+    tokenized = paligemma_tokenizer()(
+        prompts,
+        padding="max_length",
+        padding_side="right",
+        truncation=True,
+        max_length=max_token_len,
+        return_tensors="pt",
+    )
+    tokens = tokenized["input_ids"].to(device)
+    masks = tokenized["attention_mask"].to(device=device, dtype=torch.bool)
+    return tokens, masks
+
+
+def make_openpi_observation_from_raw(
+    batch: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+    *,
+    action_dim: int,
+    max_token_len: int,
+    dataset_stats: dict[str, dict[str, torch.Tensor]],
+    pi05: bool,
+) -> OpenPIObservation:
+    batch_size = batch[OBS_STATE].shape[0]
+    device = batch[OBS_STATE].device
+    state = openpi_model_state_from_raw(
+        batch,
+        action_dim=action_dim,
+        dataset_stats=dataset_stats,
+        pi05=pi05,
+    )
+
+    tasks = _tasks_from_raw(batch, batch_size)
+    prompts = _format_pi05_prompts(tasks, state) if pi05 else _format_pi0_prompts(tasks)
+    tokens, masks = _tokenize_prompts(prompts, max_token_len=max_token_len, device=device)
+
+    images = {
+        key: batch[f"observation.images.{key}"].to(device=device, dtype=torch.float32) * 2.0 - 1.0
+        for key in IMAGE_KEYS
+    }
+    image_masks = {key: torch.ones(batch_size, dtype=torch.bool, device=device) for key in IMAGE_KEYS}
+
+    return OpenPIObservation(
+        state=state,
+        images=images,
+        image_masks=image_masks,
+        tokenized_prompt=tokens,
+        tokenized_prompt_mask=masks,
+        token_ar_mask=torch.zeros_like(tokens, dtype=torch.int32),
+        token_loss_mask=torch.ones_like(masks, dtype=torch.bool),
+    )
+
+
+def assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot(
+    lerobot_policy,
+    lerobot_batch: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+    openpi_observation: OpenPIObservation,
+    *,
+    compare_state: bool,
+):
+    openpi_processed = openpi_preprocessing.preprocess_observation_pytorch(openpi_observation, train=False)
+    lerobot_images, lerobot_image_masks = lerobot_policy._preprocess_images(lerobot_batch)
+
+    # Token IDs, token masks, images, image masks, and PI0 state are intentionally built from the same
+    # raw batch through independent LeRobot/OpenPI-style processor logic. They must be bitwise equal.
+    torch.testing.assert_close(
+        openpi_observation.tokenized_prompt, lerobot_batch[OBS_LANGUAGE_TOKENS], rtol=0, atol=0
+    )
+    torch.testing.assert_close(
+        openpi_observation.tokenized_prompt_mask,
+        lerobot_batch[OBS_LANGUAGE_ATTENTION_MASK],
+        rtol=0,
+        atol=0,
+    )
+
+    for openpi_image, lerobot_image in zip(openpi_processed.images.values(), lerobot_images, strict=True):
+        torch.testing.assert_close(openpi_image, lerobot_image, rtol=0, atol=0)
+
+    for openpi_mask, lerobot_mask in zip(
+        openpi_processed.image_masks.values(), lerobot_image_masks, strict=True
+    ):
+        torch.testing.assert_close(openpi_mask, lerobot_mask, rtol=0, atol=0)
+
+    if compare_state:
+        torch.testing.assert_close(
+            openpi_processed.state, lerobot_policy.prepare_state(lerobot_batch), rtol=0, atol=0
+        )
+
+
+def load_openpi_reference_state_dict(repo_id: str) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+    cache_dir = Path(snapshot_download(repo_id=repo_id, repo_type="model"))
+    return safetensors.torch.load_file(cache_dir / "model.safetensors")
+
+
+def fix_reference_state_dict(state_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+    fixed_state_dict = dict(state_dict)
+    lm_head_key = "paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.lm_head.weight"
+    embed_tokens_key = "paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.model.language_model.embed_tokens.weight"
+    if lm_head_key in fixed_state_dict and embed_tokens_key not in fixed_state_dict:
+        fixed_state_dict[embed_tokens_key] = fixed_state_dict[lm_head_key].clone()
+    return fixed_state_dict
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def fixed_flow_sampling(model, *, noise: torch.Tensor, time: torch.Tensor) -> Iterator[None]:
+    original_sample_noise = model.sample_noise
+    original_sample_time = model.sample_time
+
+    def sample_noise(shape, device):
+        if tuple(shape) != tuple(noise.shape):
+            raise ValueError(f"Expected noise shape {tuple(noise.shape)}, got {tuple(shape)}")
+        return noise.to(device=device)
+
+    def sample_time(batch_size, device):
+        if batch_size != time.shape[0]:
+            raise ValueError(f"Expected time batch size {time.shape[0]}, got {batch_size}")
+        return time.to(device=device)
+
+    model.sample_noise = sample_noise
+    model.sample_time = sample_time
+    try:
+        yield
+    finally:
+        model.sample_noise = original_sample_noise
+        model.sample_time = original_sample_time
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def deterministic_openpi_forward_preprocess(openpi_policy) -> Iterator[None]:
+    """Disable OpenPI's training-time image augmentation only inside a parity forward block.
+
+    OpenPI's `forward()` calls `_preprocess_observation(..., train=True)`, which can apply stochastic
+    image augmentation. LeRobot's policy forward path does not apply that augmentation, so parity would
+    otherwise compare two different image tensors rather than two model implementations. The context manager
+    keeps the public `openpi_policy.forward(observation, ...)` call while making preprocessing deterministic.
+
+    `yield` marks the body of the caller's `with` block. The `try/finally` restores the original method even
+    if the assertion inside the block fails, so the temporary monkeypatch cannot leak into later tests.
+    """
+
+    original_preprocess_observation = openpi_policy._preprocess_observation
+
+    def preprocess_observation(observation, *, train=True):
+        return original_preprocess_observation(observation, train=False)
+
+    openpi_policy._preprocess_observation = preprocess_observation
+    try:
+        yield
+    finally:
+        openpi_policy._preprocess_observation = original_preprocess_observation

tests/policies/pi0_pi05/utils/torch_compile.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import time
+from collections.abc import Callable
+
+import torch
+from torch._dynamo.utils import counters, guard_failures
+from torch.profiler import ProfilerActivity
+
+FORWARD_RTOL = 1e-5
+FORWARD_ATOL = 5e-2
+SAMPLE_RTOL = 1e-5
+SAMPLE_ATOL = 1e-2
+COMPILE_MODE = "max-autotune"
+STEADY_STATE_WARMUPS = 3
+STEADY_STATE_REPEATS = 3
+
+
+def make_compile_config(config_cls, *, compile_model):
+    return config_cls(device="cuda", compile_model=compile_model, compile_mode=COMPILE_MODE)
+
+
+def counter_total(name):
+    return sum(counters.get(name, {}).values())
+
+
+def compile_snapshot():
+    return {
+        "graph_breaks": counter_total("graph_break"),
+        "recompiles": counter_total("recompiles"),
+        "recompile_limits": counter_total("recompile_limit"),
+        "unique_graphs": counters["stats"].get("unique_graphs", 0),
+    }
+
+
+def reset_compile_state():
+    torch._dynamo.reset()
+    counters.clear()
+    guard_failures.clear()
+
+
+def clone_cuda_graph_output(output):
+    if torch.is_tensor(output):
+        return output.clone()
+    if isinstance(output, tuple):
+        return tuple(clone_cuda_graph_output(item) for item in output)
+    if isinstance(output, list):
+        return [clone_cuda_graph_output(item) for item in output]
+    if isinstance(output, dict):
+        return {key: clone_cuda_graph_output(value) for key, value in output.items()}
+    return output
+
+
+def run_model_step(fn: Callable, kwargs: dict):
+    if hasattr(torch.compiler, "cudagraph_mark_step_begin"):
+        torch.compiler.cudagraph_mark_step_begin()
+    return fn(**kwargs)
+
+
+def assert_explain_has_no_graph_breaks(fn: Callable, kwargs: dict, label: str):
+    reset_compile_state()
+    explanation = torch._dynamo.explain(fn)(**kwargs)
+
+    assert explanation.graph_count > 0, f"{label} was not captured by Dynamo"
+    assert explanation.graph_break_count == 0, (
+        f"{label} has {explanation.graph_break_count} graph break(s): {explanation.break_reasons}"
+    )
+    assert not explanation.break_reasons, f"{label} graph break reasons: {explanation.break_reasons}"
+
+    print(
+        f"{label} capture: graphs={explanation.graph_count}, "
+        f"graph_breaks={explanation.graph_break_count}, ops={explanation.op_count}, "
+        f"guards={len(explanation.out_guards or [])}"
+    )
+    return explanation
+
+
+@torch.no_grad()
+def assert_compiled_output_matches_eager(eager_model, compiled_model, forward_kwargs, sample_kwargs):
+    eager_forward = eager_model.forward(**forward_kwargs)
+    compiled_forward = compiled_model.forward(**forward_kwargs)
+    torch.testing.assert_close(compiled_forward, eager_forward, rtol=FORWARD_RTOL, atol=FORWARD_ATOL)
+
+    eager_actions = eager_model.sample_actions(**sample_kwargs)
+    compiled_actions = compiled_model.sample_actions(**sample_kwargs)
+    torch.testing.assert_close(compiled_actions, eager_actions, rtol=SAMPLE_RTOL, atol=SAMPLE_ATOL)
+
+
+@torch.no_grad()
+def assert_cache_stability(fn: Callable, kwargs: dict, label: str):
+    reset_compile_state()
+
+    first_output = clone_cuda_graph_output(run_model_step(fn, kwargs))
+    first_snapshot = compile_snapshot()
+    second_output = clone_cuda_graph_output(run_model_step(fn, kwargs))
+    second_snapshot = compile_snapshot()
+    third_output = clone_cuda_graph_output(run_model_step(fn, kwargs))
+    third_snapshot = compile_snapshot()
+
+    torch.testing.assert_close(second_output, first_output, rtol=FORWARD_RTOL, atol=FORWARD_ATOL)
+    torch.testing.assert_close(third_output, first_output, rtol=FORWARD_RTOL, atol=FORWARD_ATOL)
+    assert first_snapshot["unique_graphs"] > 0, f"{label} did not compile any graph"
+    assert third_snapshot["graph_breaks"] == 0, f"{label} graph breaks: {third_snapshot}"
+    assert third_snapshot["recompiles"] == 0, f"{label} recompiled: {third_snapshot}"
+    assert third_snapshot["recompile_limits"] == 0, f"{label} hit recompile limit: {third_snapshot}"
+    assert second_snapshot["unique_graphs"] == first_snapshot["unique_graphs"], (
+        f"{label} compiled new graph on second call: first={first_snapshot}, second={second_snapshot}"
+    )
+    assert third_snapshot["unique_graphs"] == first_snapshot["unique_graphs"], (
+        f"{label} compiled new graph on third call: first={first_snapshot}, third={third_snapshot}"
+    )
+    assert not guard_failures, f"{label} guard failures: {dict(guard_failures)}"
+
+    print(f"{label} cache: first={first_snapshot}, third={third_snapshot}")
+
+
+@torch.no_grad()
+def benchmark_runtime(eager_fn: Callable, compiled_fn: Callable, kwargs: dict, label: str):
+    run_warmups(eager_fn, kwargs)
+    run_warmups(compiled_fn, kwargs)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    eager_metrics = profile_callable(eager_fn, kwargs)
+    compiled_metrics = profile_callable(compiled_fn, kwargs)
+    speedup = eager_metrics["cuda_event_ms"] / compiled_metrics["cuda_event_ms"]
+
+    print(
+        f"{label} runtime: eager_cuda={eager_metrics['cuda_event_ms']:.3f} ms, "
+        f"compiled_cuda={compiled_metrics['cuda_event_ms']:.3f} ms, speedup={speedup:.3f}x, "
+        f"host_wall_ms eager/compiled={eager_metrics['host_wall_ms']:.3f}/"
+        f"{compiled_metrics['host_wall_ms']:.3f}, "
+        f"cpu_self_time_ms eager/compiled={eager_metrics['cpu_self_time_ms']:.3f}/"
+        f"{compiled_metrics['cpu_self_time_ms']:.3f}, "
+        f"cuda_launches eager/compiled={eager_metrics['cuda_launch_count']}/"
+        f"{compiled_metrics['cuda_launch_count']}, "
+        f"profiler_events eager/compiled={eager_metrics['profiler_event_count']}/"
+        f"{compiled_metrics['profiler_event_count']}, "
+        f"peak_mem_mib eager/compiled={eager_metrics['peak_mem_mib']:.1f}/"
+        f"{compiled_metrics['peak_mem_mib']:.1f}"
+    )
+
+    assert eager_metrics["cuda_event_ms"] > 0
+    assert compiled_metrics["cuda_event_ms"] > 0
+    assert eager_metrics["profiler_event_count"] > 0
+    assert compiled_metrics["profiler_event_count"] > 0
+    return eager_metrics, compiled_metrics
+
+
+def run_warmups(fn: Callable, kwargs: dict):
+    for _ in range(STEADY_STATE_WARMUPS):
+        run_model_step(fn, kwargs)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+
+def profile_callable(fn: Callable, kwargs: dict):
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    torch.cuda.reset_peak_memory_stats()
+
+    start_event = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True)
+    end_event = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True)
+    host_start = time.perf_counter()
+    start_event.record()
+    for _ in range(STEADY_STATE_REPEATS):
+        run_model_step(fn, kwargs)
+    end_event.record()
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    cuda_event_ms = start_event.elapsed_time(end_event) / STEADY_STATE_REPEATS
+    host_wall_ms = (time.perf_counter() - host_start) * 1000 / STEADY_STATE_REPEATS
+    peak_mem_mib = torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() / 1024**2
+
+    with torch.profiler.profile(
+        activities=[ProfilerActivity.CPU],
+    ) as profiler:
+        run_model_step(fn, kwargs)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    key_averages = profiler.key_averages()
+    cpu_self_time_ms = sum(event.self_cpu_time_total for event in key_averages) / 1000
+    cuda_launch_count = sum(
+        event.count
+        for event in key_averages
+        if event.key in {"cudaLaunchKernel", "cudaGraphLaunch", "cudaLaunchKernelExC"}
+    )
+    profiler_event_count = sum(event.count for event in key_averages)
+
+    return {
+        "cuda_event_ms": cuda_event_ms,
+        "host_wall_ms": host_wall_ms,
+        "cpu_self_time_ms": cpu_self_time_ms,
+        "cuda_launch_count": cuda_launch_count,
+        "profiler_event_count": profiler_event_count,
+        "peak_mem_mib": peak_mem_mib,
+    }

tests/processor/test_pi05_processor.py

@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Compare the PI0.5 processor pipeline against the vendored OpenPI reference processors."""
+
+import os
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+pytest.importorskip("transformers")
+
+from lerobot.configs import FeatureType, PolicyFeature  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi05 import PI05Policy  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi05.configuration_pi05 import PI05Config  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi05.processor_pi05 import make_pi05_pre_post_processors  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.utils.constants import ACTION, OBS_STATE  # noqa: E402
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.utils.openpi_parity import (  # noqa: E402
+    IMAGE_KEYS,
+    assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot,
+    clone_batch,
+    make_openpi_observation_from_raw,
+    openpi_model_actions_from_raw,
+)
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    os.environ.get("CI") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true",
+    reason="OpenPI processor parity uses the PaliGemma tokenizer; run manually outside CI.",
+)
+
+DUMMY_ACTION_DIM = 32
+DUMMY_STATE_DIM = 32
+DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON = 50
+DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN = 200
+DEVICE = torch.device("cpu")
+
+DUMMY_DATASET_STATS = {
+    OBS_STATE: {
+        "mean": torch.zeros(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
+        "std": torch.ones(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
+        "q01": torch.zeros(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
+        "q99": torch.ones(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
+    },
+    ACTION: {
+        "mean": torch.zeros(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
+        "std": torch.ones(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
+        "q01": torch.zeros(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
+        "q99": torch.ones(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
+    },
+    "images": {
+        key: {
+            "mean": torch.zeros(3, 224, 224),
+            "std": torch.ones(3, 224, 224),
+            "q01": torch.zeros(3, 224, 224),
+            "q99": torch.ones(3, 224, 224),
+        }
+        for key in IMAGE_KEYS
+    },
+}
+
+
+class PI05PolicyInputAdapter(torch.nn.Module):
+    """Minimal adapter exposing PI0.5 policy image preparation without loading model weights."""
+
+    _preprocess_images = PI05Policy._preprocess_images
+
+    def __init__(self, config: PI05Config) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.config = config
+        self._device_anchor = torch.nn.Parameter(torch.empty((), device=config.device), requires_grad=False)
+
+
+def create_pi05_config() -> PI05Config:
+    config = PI05Config(device=str(DEVICE))
+    config.max_state_dim = DUMMY_STATE_DIM
+    config.max_action_dim = DUMMY_ACTION_DIM
+    config.chunk_size = DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON
+    config.n_action_steps = DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON
+    config.tokenizer_max_length = DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN
+    config.input_features = {
+        OBS_STATE: PolicyFeature(type=FeatureType.STATE, shape=(DUMMY_STATE_DIM,)),
+        **{
+            f"observation.images.{key}": PolicyFeature(type=FeatureType.VISUAL, shape=(3, 224, 224))
+            for key in IMAGE_KEYS
+        },
+    }
+    config.output_features = {
+        ACTION: PolicyFeature(type=FeatureType.ACTION, shape=(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,)),
+    }
+    return config
+
+
+def create_dummy_data() -> dict:
+    batch_size = 2
+    prompt = "Pick up the red block and place it in the bin"
+    return {
+        OBS_STATE: torch.randn(batch_size, DUMMY_STATE_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE),
+        ACTION: torch.randn(
+            batch_size, DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON, DUMMY_ACTION_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
+        ),
+        **{
+            f"observation.images.{key}": torch.rand(
+                batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
+            )
+            for key in IMAGE_KEYS
+        },
+        "task": [prompt for _ in range(batch_size)],
+    }
+
+
+def test_pi05_processor_inputs_match_openpi_reference():
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    config = create_pi05_config()
+    preprocessor, _ = make_pi05_pre_post_processors(config=config, dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS)
+
+    raw_batch = create_dummy_data()
+    lerobot_batch = preprocessor(clone_batch(raw_batch))
+    openpi_observation = make_openpi_observation_from_raw(
+        raw_batch,
+        action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+        max_token_len=DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN,
+        dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS,
+        pi05=True,
+    )
+
+    assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot(
+        PI05PolicyInputAdapter(config),
+        lerobot_batch,
+        openpi_observation,
+        compare_state=False,
+    )
+    torch.testing.assert_close(
+        lerobot_batch[ACTION],
+        openpi_model_actions_from_raw(
+            raw_batch,
+            action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+            dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS,
+            pi05=True,
+        ),
+        rtol=0,
+        atol=0,
+    )

tests/processor/test_pi0_processor.py

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Compare the PI0 processor pipeline against the vendored OpenPI reference processors."""
+
+import os
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+pytest.importorskip("transformers")
+
+from lerobot.configs import FeatureType, PolicyFeature  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi0 import PI0Policy  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi0.configuration_pi0 import PI0Config  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.policies.pi0.processor_pi0 import make_pi0_pre_post_processors  # noqa: E402
+from lerobot.utils.constants import ACTION, OBS_STATE  # noqa: E402
+from tests.policies.pi0_pi05.utils.openpi_parity import (  # noqa: E402
+    IMAGE_KEYS,
+    assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot,
+    clone_batch,
+    make_openpi_observation_from_raw,
+    openpi_model_actions_from_raw,
+)
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    os.environ.get("CI") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true",
+    reason="OpenPI processor parity uses the PaliGemma tokenizer; run manually outside CI.",
+)
+
+DUMMY_ACTION_DIM = 32
+DUMMY_STATE_DIM = 32
+DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON = 50
+DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN = 48
+DEVICE = torch.device("cpu")
+
+DUMMY_DATASET_STATS = {
+    OBS_STATE: {
+        "mean": torch.zeros(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
+        "std": torch.ones(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
+        "q01": torch.zeros(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
+        "q99": torch.ones(DUMMY_STATE_DIM),
+    },
+    ACTION: {
+        "mean": torch.zeros(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
+        "std": torch.ones(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
+        "q01": torch.zeros(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
+        "q99": torch.ones(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM),
+    },
+    "images": {
+        key: {
+            "mean": torch.zeros(3, 224, 224),
+            "std": torch.ones(3, 224, 224),
+            "q01": torch.zeros(3, 224, 224),
+            "q99": torch.ones(3, 224, 224),
+        }
+        for key in IMAGE_KEYS
+    },
+}
+
+
+class PI0PolicyInputAdapter(torch.nn.Module):
+    """Minimal adapter exposing PI0 policy input-preparation helpers without loading model weights."""
+
+    _preprocess_images = PI0Policy._preprocess_images
+    prepare_state = PI0Policy.prepare_state
+
+    def __init__(self, config: PI0Config) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.config = config
+        self._device_anchor = torch.nn.Parameter(torch.empty((), device=config.device), requires_grad=False)
+
+
+def create_pi0_config() -> PI0Config:
+    config = PI0Config(device=str(DEVICE))
+    config.max_state_dim = DUMMY_STATE_DIM
+    config.max_action_dim = DUMMY_ACTION_DIM
+    config.chunk_size = DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON
+    config.n_action_steps = DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON
+    config.tokenizer_max_length = DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN
+    config.input_features = {
+        OBS_STATE: PolicyFeature(type=FeatureType.STATE, shape=(DUMMY_STATE_DIM,)),
+        **{
+            f"observation.images.{key}": PolicyFeature(type=FeatureType.VISUAL, shape=(3, 224, 224))
+            for key in IMAGE_KEYS
+        },
+    }
+    config.output_features = {
+        ACTION: PolicyFeature(type=FeatureType.ACTION, shape=(DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,)),
+    }
+    return config
+
+
+def create_dummy_data() -> dict:
+    batch_size = 2
+    prompt = "Pick up the red block and place it in the bin"
+    return {
+        OBS_STATE: torch.randn(batch_size, DUMMY_STATE_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE),
+        ACTION: torch.randn(
+            batch_size, DUMMY_ACTION_HORIZON, DUMMY_ACTION_DIM, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
+        ),
+        **{
+            f"observation.images.{key}": torch.rand(
+                batch_size, 3, 224, 224, dtype=torch.float32, device=DEVICE
+            )
+            for key in IMAGE_KEYS
+        },
+        "task": [prompt for _ in range(batch_size)],
+    }
+
+
+def test_pi0_processor_inputs_match_openpi_reference():
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    config = create_pi0_config()
+    preprocessor, _ = make_pi0_pre_post_processors(config=config, dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS)
+
+    raw_batch = create_dummy_data()
+    lerobot_batch = preprocessor(clone_batch(raw_batch))
+    openpi_observation = make_openpi_observation_from_raw(
+        raw_batch,
+        action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+        max_token_len=DUMMY_MAX_TOKEN_LEN,
+        dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS,
+        pi05=False,
+    )
+
+    assert_processor_inputs_match_lerobot(
+        PI0PolicyInputAdapter(config),
+        lerobot_batch,
+        openpi_observation,
+        compare_state=True,
+    )
+    torch.testing.assert_close(
+        lerobot_batch[ACTION],
+        openpi_model_actions_from_raw(
+            raw_batch,
+            action_dim=DUMMY_ACTION_DIM,
+            dataset_stats=DUMMY_DATASET_STATS,
+            pi05=False,
+        ),
+        rtol=0,
+        atol=0,
+    )

tests/test_yaml_policy_path.py

@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 """Tests for policy.path support in YAML config files (issue #2957)."""
 
 import json
+import sys
 import tempfile
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import yaml
 
+from lerobot.configs import parser
 from lerobot.configs.parser import (
     _config_path_args,
     _config_yaml_overrides,
@@ -16,7 +20,8 @@ from lerobot.configs.parser import (
 
 
 def test_extract_path_fields_from_yaml():
-    """Test that policy.path is extracted from a YAML config and removed."""
+    """Test that policy.path is extracted from a YAML config and the policy block
+    is removed entirely (siblings are captured separately as cli_overrides)."""
     config = {
         "dataset": {"repo_id": "lerobot/pusht"},
         "policy": {"type": "smolvla", "path": "lerobot/smolvla_base", "push_to_hub": False},
@@ -26,26 +31,33 @@ def test_extract_path_fields_from_yaml():
         config_path = f.name
 
     _config_path_args.clear()
+    _config_yaml_overrides.clear()
     cleaned_path = extract_path_fields_from_config(config_path, ["policy"])
 
     # Path should be extracted and stored
     assert _config_path_args["policy"] == "lerobot/smolvla_base"
 
-    # Cleaned config should not have the path field
+    # Cleaned config should not have the policy block at all -- draccus must not
+    # try to decode it as PreTrainedConfig; the actual config comes from
+    # from_pretrained(path) with the captured overrides applied on top.
     with open(cleaned_path) as f:
         cleaned = yaml.safe_load(f)
-    assert "path" not in cleaned["policy"]
-    assert cleaned["policy"]["type"] == "smolvla"
-    assert cleaned["policy"]["push_to_hub"] is False
+    assert "policy" not in cleaned
 
     # Original dataset should be untouched
     assert cleaned["dataset"]["repo_id"] == "lerobot/pusht"
 
+    # Sibling overrides (excluding type/path) captured for from_pretrained.
+    overrides = get_yaml_overrides("policy")
+    assert any("push_to_hub=false" in o for o in overrides)
+
     _config_path_args.clear()
+    _config_yaml_overrides.clear()
 
 
 def test_extract_path_fields_from_json():
-    """Test that policy.path is extracted from a JSON config."""
+    """Test that policy.path is extracted from a JSON config and the policy
+    block is removed entirely."""
     config = {
         "policy": {"type": "act", "path": "some/local/path"},
     }
@@ -54,15 +66,17 @@ def test_extract_path_fields_from_json():
         config_path = f.name
 
     _config_path_args.clear()
+    _config_yaml_overrides.clear()
     cleaned_path = extract_path_fields_from_config(config_path, ["policy"])
 
     assert _config_path_args["policy"] == "some/local/path"
 
     with open(cleaned_path) as f:
         cleaned = json.load(f)
-    assert "path" not in cleaned["policy"]
+    assert "policy" not in cleaned
 
     _config_path_args.clear()
+    _config_yaml_overrides.clear()
 
 
 def test_extract_no_path_returns_original():
@@ -216,3 +230,91 @@ def test_flatten_nested_with_bools():
     args = _flatten_to_cli_args(d)
     assert "--optimizer.use_warmup=true" in args
     assert "--optimizer.lr=0.01" in args
+
+
+def test_extract_removes_field_with_siblings_and_no_type():
+    """Regression: when policy.path has siblings but no type:, the entire policy
+    block must still be removed from the cleaned config. Otherwise draccus tries
+    to decode the leftover dict as PreTrainedConfig and crashes on the missing
+    type discriminator.
+    """
+    config = {
+        "dataset": {"repo_id": "lerobot/pusht"},
+        "policy": {
+            "path": "lerobot/smolvla_base",
+            "n_action_steps": 10,
+            "dtype": "bfloat16",
+        },
+    }
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode="w", suffix=".yaml", delete=False) as f:
+        yaml.dump(config, f)
+        config_path = f.name
+
+    _config_path_args.clear()
+    _config_yaml_overrides.clear()
+    cleaned_path = extract_path_fields_from_config(config_path, ["policy"])
+
+    with open(cleaned_path) as f:
+        cleaned = yaml.safe_load(f) or {}
+    assert "policy" not in cleaned, "policy block should be fully removed when path is present"
+    assert cleaned["dataset"]["repo_id"] == "lerobot/pusht"
+    assert _config_path_args["policy"] == "lerobot/smolvla_base"
+    overrides = get_yaml_overrides("policy")
+    assert any("n_action_steps=10" in o for o in overrides)
+    assert any("dtype=bfloat16" in o for o in overrides)
+
+    _config_path_args.clear()
+    _config_yaml_overrides.clear()
+
+
+@dataclass
+class _DummyNested:
+    foo: int = 0
+
+
+@dataclass
+class _DummyConfig:
+    nested: _DummyNested = field(default_factory=_DummyNested)
+    other: str = "default"
+
+    @classmethod
+    def __get_path_fields__(cls):
+        return ["nested"]
+
+
+def test_wrap_uses_cleaned_config_for_draccus_parse():
+    """Regression: wrap() updates config_path_cli to point at the cleaned temp
+    file but must propagate that to the draccus.parse fallback branch. Without
+    the fix, cli_args still contains --config_path=<original> and draccus reads
+    the original YAML with `path:` still in it, crashing on the unknown field.
+    """
+    config = {
+        "nested": {"path": "some/checkpoint", "foo": 42},
+        "other": "set-via-yaml",
+    }
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode="w", suffix=".yaml", delete=False) as f:
+        yaml.dump(config, f)
+        config_path = f.name
+
+    _config_path_args.clear()
+    _config_yaml_overrides.clear()
+
+    captured: dict = {}
+
+    @parser.wrap()
+    def main(cfg: _DummyConfig) -> _DummyConfig:
+        captured["cfg"] = cfg
+        return cfg
+
+    with patch.object(sys, "argv", ["prog", f"--config_path={config_path}"]):
+        main()
+
+    assert captured["cfg"].other == "set-via-yaml"
+    assert _config_path_args["nested"] == "some/checkpoint"
+    # Cleaned config dropped `nested:` entirely; defaults stand for this wrapper
+    # class (a real PreTrainedConfig would now load the checkpoint and apply
+    # the captured yaml_overrides via from_pretrained()).
+    assert captured["cfg"].nested.foo == 0
+
+    _config_path_args.clear()
+    _config_yaml_overrides.clear()

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